Wireless sensing networks for environmental monitoring: Two case studies from tropical forests

Proceedings - 2011 7th IEEE International Conference on eScience, eScience 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 70-76

  Sánchez Azofeifa, G Arturo ^a   Rankine, Cassidy ^a   Do Espirito Santo, Mario Marcos ^b   Fatland, Rob ^c   Garcia, Milton ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF MONTES CLAROS   (Brazil)

^c MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^d SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

ecosystem succession; leaf canopy temperature; tropical dry forests; wireless sensor networks

Indexed keywords

E-SCIENCE; ECOLOGICAL PROCESS; ECOSYSTEM PROCESS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL THRESHOLD; HIGH TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; KEY ELEMENTS; LAND USE/COVER CHANGE; LEAF TEMPERATURE; LIGHT PATTERNS; PHOTOSYNTHETICALLY ACTIVE RADIATION; TEMPORAL SCALE; TROPICAL DRY FOREST; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENTS; TROPICAL FOREST; WIRELESS SENSING; WIRELESS SENSOR;

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; EXPERIMENTS; FORESTRY; MONITORING; SENSORS; TROPICS;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL AUDITING; FORESTS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SENSORS; TELECOMMUNICATIONS; TROPICAL ATMOSPHERES;

EID: 84856318772     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/eScience.2011.18     Document Type: Conference Paper

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