Wireless sensor network deployment for monitoring wildlife passages

Sensors

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 7236-7262

  Garcia Sanchez, Antonio Javier ^a   Garcia Sanchez, Felipe ^a   Losilla, Fernando ^a   Kulakowski, Pawel ^b   Garcia Haro, Joan ^a   Rodríguez, Alejandro ^c   López Bao, José Vicente ^c   Palomares, Francisco ^c  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CARTAGENA   (Spain)

^b AGH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^c DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Simulation; Tracking; Wildlife monitoring; Wireless sensor network

Indexed keywords

CIVIL INFRASTRUCTURES; IEEE 802.15.4 STANDARDS; OPERATIONAL PARAMETERS; SIMULATION; TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURES; WILDLIFE MONITORING; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK (WSNS); WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK DEPLOYMENT;

SENSOR NODES; SENSORS; STANDARDS; SURFACE DISCHARGES; TARGET TRACKING; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

ANIMALS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPUTER NETWORK; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; INSTRUMENTATION; LOCOMOTION; REPRODUCIBILITY; THEORETICAL MODEL; WILD ANIMAL; WIRELESS COMMUNICATION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; COMPUTER COMMUNICATION NETWORKS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION STUDIES AS TOPIC; LOCOMOTION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOFTWARE; WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 77957244440     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s100807236     Document Type: Article

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