Wildfire monitoring using a mixed air-ground mobile network

IEEE Pervasive Computing

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 24-32

  Barrado, Cristina ^a   Meseguer, Roc ^a   López, Juan ^a   Pastor, Enric ^a   Santamaria, Eduard ^a   Royo, Pablo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOT SPOT; NEW APPLICATIONS; UNMANNED AIRCRAFTS;

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

MANAGERS;

EID: 84856278646     PISSN: 15361268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MPRV.2010.54     Document Type: Conference Paper

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