Contextual sensing: Integrating contextual information with human and technical geo-sensor information for smart cities

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 17013-17035

  Sagl, Günther ^a   Resch, Bernd ^b,c,d   Blaschke, Thomas ^b  

^a CARINTHIA UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Geographic information science; Human environment interaction; Quality of life; Sensing; Sensors; Urban dynamics; Urban environment

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SENSORS;

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SCIENCE; HUMAN-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; QUALITY OF LIFE; SENSING; URBAN DYNAMICS; URBAN ENVIRONMENTS;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 84940180394     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s150717013     Document Type: Article

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