Participatory noise pollution monitoring using mobile phones

Information Polity

Volumn 15, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 51-71

  Maisonneuve, Nicolas ^a   Stevens, Matthias ^b   Ochab, Bartek ^a  

^a SONY COMPUTER SCIENCE LABORATORY   (France)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

citizen science; Environmental policy; mobile phones; participatory sensing; pollution measurement; Web 2.0

Indexed keywords

EID: 79954448127     PISSN: 15701255     EISSN: 18758754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/IP-2010-0200     Document Type: Article

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