Unmanned vehicles for environmental data collection

Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 369-380

  De Sousa, J Borges ^a   Andrade Goncalves G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Autonomous vehicles; Environmental data collection; Network vehicle systems

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES; DATA ACQUISITION;

ENVIRONMENTAL DATA; ENVIRONMENTAL FIELDS; SPATIAL TEMPORALS; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; UNDERWATER SYSTEMS; UNMANNED VEHICLE SYSTEMS; VEHICLE NETWORK; VEHICLE SYSTEM;

UNMANNED VEHICLES;

EID: 79954597245     PISSN: 1618954X     EISSN: 16189558     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10098-010-0313-5     Document Type: Article

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