GPS-equipped wireless sensor network node for high-accuracy positioning applications

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 7158 LNCS, Issue , 2012, Pages 179-195

  Buchli, Bernhard ^a   Sutton, Felix ^a   Beutel, Jan ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Geodesy; GPS; Monitoring; Positioning; Wireless Sensor Networks

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL GPS; DUTY-CYCLING; END-TO-END SYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; GPS DATA; HIGH-ACCURACY POSITIONING; LOW COSTS; LOW POWER; MOTION OF INDIVIDUAL; OFF-THE-SHELF COMPONENTS; OPTIMIZED OPERATIONS; POSITIONING; PROTOTYPE DATA; RELATIVE POSITIONS; REMOTE AREAS; SATELLITE INFORMATION; SYNCHRONIZED MEASUREMENT; TEMPORAL COVERAGE; TIME SYNCHRONIZATION; WIRELESS DATA; WIRELESS SENSOR;

GEODESY; GEODETIC SATELLITES; MONITORING; SENSOR NODES; SURVEYING;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

EID: 84857208555     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-28169-3_12     Document Type: Conference Paper

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