Mobile phones as seismologic sensors: Automating data extraction for the ishake system

IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 242-251

  Reilly, Jack ^a   Dashti, Shideh ^b   Ervasti, Mari ^c   Bray, Jonathan D ^a   Glaser, Steven D ^a   Bayen, Alexandre M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

^c VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Accelerometer; crowdsourcing; earthquake; mobile phones; participatory sensing; seismograph; signal processing

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE ORIENTATION; CROWDSOURCING; MOBILE APPLICATIONS; PARTICIPATORY SENSING; REPORTING MECHANISMS; SHAKING TABLE TESTING; SIGNAL PROCESSING TECHNIQUE; SYSTEM ARCHITECTURES;

ACCELEROMETERS; BENCHMARKING; CELLULAR TELEPHONES; COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; MOBILE DEVICES; MOBILE PHONES; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; SEISMOGRAPHS; SENSORS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SURVEYS;

EARTHQUAKES;

EID: 84876120779     PISSN: 15455955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASE.2013.2245121     Document Type: Article

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