Sensor networks for the detection and tracking of radiation and other threats in cities

Proceedings of the 10th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks, IPSN'11

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1-12

  Liu, Annie H ^a   Bunn, Julian J ^a   Chandy, K Mani ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND RADIATION; BAYESIAN APPROACHES; BAYESIAN STATISTICS; DETECTION AND TRACKING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOBILE SENSORS; NETWORK PARAMETERS; NUCLEAR RADIATIONS; PRIOR DISTRIBUTION; REDUCED SCALE; SENSOR PLACEMENT;

ALGORITHMS; BAYESIAN NETWORKS; DATA PROCESSING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PARKS; SENSOR NETWORKS; SENSORS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 79959294338     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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