High resolution air pollution maps in urban environments using mobile sensor networks

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems, DCOSS 2015

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 11-20

  Marjovi, Ali ^a   Arfire, Adrian ^a   Martinoli, Alcherio ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Air pollution map; Environmental monitoring; Mobile sensor network; Urban air pollution

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; LINEAR REGRESSION; NEAREST NEIGHBOR SEARCH; POLLUTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SENSOR NETWORKS; THERMAL LOGGING; TOPOLOGY; URBAN PLANNING;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; JOINT PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; K-NEAREST NEIGHBOR METHOD; LINEAR REGRESSION MODELS; MOBILE SENSOR NETWORKS; PROBABILISTIC GRAPHICAL MODELS (PGM); SPATIO-TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; URBAN AIR POLLUTION;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 84945958947     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/DCOSS.2015.32     Document Type: Conference Paper

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