Wireless Sensor Network: A Pervasive Technology for Earth Observation

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 488-496

  Benedetti, Manuel ^a   Ioriatti, Luca ^a   Martinelli, Mauro ^a   Viani, Federico ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Distributed monitoring; earth observation; environmental monitoring; sensor web; wireless sensor network

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED MONITORING; EARTH OBSERVATIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; SENSOR WEB; WIRELESS SENSOR;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; OBSERVATORIES; SENSOR NETWORKS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

AIRBORNE SENSOR; COORDINATE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EOS; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS; MONITORING SYSTEM; SPACECRAFT;

EID: 78650427164     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2010.2052917     Document Type: Article

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