Estimating productivity of earthmoving operations using spatial technologies

Proceedings, Annual Conference - Canadian Society for Civil Engineering

Volumn 3, Issue , 2011, Pages 2318-2327

  Montaser, A ^a   Bakry, I ^a   Alshibani, A ^a   Moselhi, O ^a  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRECTIVE ACTIONS; CYCLE TIME; DATA FITTINGS; EARTHMOVING OPERATIONS; JOB SITES; REMOTE MONITORING; SIMULATION SOFTWARE; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; SPATIAL DATA; SPATIAL TECHNOLOGIES; SPREADSHEET APPLICATIONS;

CIVIL ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA HANDLING; EARTHMOVING MACHINERY; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; PRODUCTIVITY; RESEARCH LABORATORIES;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 84855761907     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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