Combined ultra-wideband positioning and range imaging sensing for productivity and safety monitoring in building construction

Congress on Computing in Civil Engineering, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 681-688

  Teizer, Jochen ^a   Castro Lacouture, Daniel ^b  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision Making; Productivity; Range Imaging; Safety; Ultra Wideband

Indexed keywords

COMPETITIVE BUSINESS; CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS; CONSTRUCTION SITES; ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES; EXPERIMENTAL PLANS; INTELLIGENT DECISION MAKING; RANGE IMAGING; RESEARCH METHODOLOGIES;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; CIVIL ENGINEERING; CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; PRODUCTIVITY; RESEARCH; SENSORS; TECHNOLOGY;

ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

EID: 84891322445     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1061/40937(261)81     Document Type: Conference Paper

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