Remote real-time monitoring of subsurface landfill gas migration

Sensors

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 6603-6628

  Fay, Cormac ^a   Doherty, Aiden R ^a   Beirne, Stephen ^a   Collins, Fiachra ^a   Foley, Colum ^a   Healy, John ^a   Kiernan, Breda M ^a   Lee, Hyowon ^a   Maher, Damien ^a   Orpen, Dylan ^a   Phelan, Thomas ^a   Qiu, Zhengwei ^a   Zhang, Kirk ^a   Gurrin, Cathal ^a   Corcoran, Brian ^a   O'Connor, Noel E ^a   Smeaton, Alan F ^a   Diamond, Dermot ^a  

^a DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Carbon dioxide; Chemistry; Environmental monitoring; Greenhouse gases; Landfill; Methane; Sensor data management; Sensor networks

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; METHANE;

AIR POLLUTANT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SYSTEM; ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; REMOTE SENSING; WASTE DISPOSAL;

AIR POLLUTANTS; CARBON DIOXIDE; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; METHANE; REFUSE DISPOSAL; REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 79960771470     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s110706603     Document Type: Article

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