Ubiquitous geo-sensing for context-aware analysis: Exploring relationships between environmental and human dynamics

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 9800-9822

  Sagl, Günther ^a   Blaschke, Thomas ^a   Beinat, Euro ^a   Resch, Bernd ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Collective sensing; Context awareness; Environmental monitoring; Geographic information science; Human environmental interaction; Maximal information coefficient; Sensor data; Spatio temporal dynamics; Ubiquitous sensing; Urban dynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864353445     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s120709800     Document Type: Article

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