Propagation constraints in elephant localization using an acoustic sensor network

ICIAFS 2012 - Proceedings: 2012 IEEE 6th International Conference on Information and Automation for Sustainability

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 101-105

  Dissanayake, Chinthaka M ^a   Kotagiri, Ramamohanarao ^b   Halgamuge, Malka N ^a   Moran, Bill ^a   Farrell, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SENSOR NETWORKS; EXTENSIVE SIMULATIONS; LOCALIZATION ACCURACY; METEOROLOGICAL PARAMETERS; POSITIONING ACCURACY; SIGNALTONOISE RATIO (SNR); TEMPERATURE VARIATION; UNIFORM DISTRIBUTION; WIND VELOCITY AND DIRECTION;

ACOUSTIC DEVICES; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 84874158270     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICIAFS.2012.6419889     Document Type: Conference Paper

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