An empirical investigation of the accuracy of location-based services in South Africa

Journal of Location Based Services

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 22-34

  Dahunsi, Folasade ^a   Dwolatzky, Barry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

accuracy; empirical investigation; location based services; network based positioning

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION; GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATIONS; GSM PHONES; HIGH IMPACT; JOHANNESBURG; MOBILE LOCATION; NETWORK-BASED; SOUTH AFRICA;

COMPUTER NETWORKS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

LOCATION BASED SERVICES;

EID: 84859592596     PISSN: 17489725     EISSN: 17489733     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17489725.2011.625303     Document Type: Article

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