Assessment of smartphone-based technology for remote environmental monitoring and its development

Instrumentation Science and Technology

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 504-529

  Lee, Seongkyu ^a   Kim, Jinsoo ^b   Jin, Cheonggil ^c   Bae, Sanghoon ^a   Choi, Chuluong ^a  

^a Pukyong National University   (South Korea)

^b ZEN21   (South Korea)

^c Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

automated camera system; environmental monitoring; remote monitoring system; smartphone

Indexed keywords

CAMERA CALIBRATION; CAMERA SYSTEMS; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING SYSTEM; GEOMETRIC CORRECTION; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM RECEIVERS; GROUND CONTROL POINTS; IMAGING DEVICE; LASER SCANNER; LENS DISTORTION CORRECTION; MEMS SENSORS; MONITORING INFORMATION; MONITORING TECHNOLOGIES; REMOTE MONITORING; REMOTE MONITORING SYSTEM; SAMSUNG; STEREO MATCHING; STEREO-IMAGE; TOTAL STATION;

CALIBRATION; CAMERAS; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; GLOBAL WARMING; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; MEMS; MONITORING; REMOTE CONTROL; ROCK MECHANICS; SENSORS; SIGNAL ENCODING; SMARTPHONES; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

OPEN SYSTEMS;

EID: 84869790283     PISSN: 10739149     EISSN: 15256030     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10739149.2012.700534     Document Type: Article

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