Urban Resolution: New Metric for Measuring the Quality of Urban Sensing

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 2560-2575

  Liu, Liang ^a   Wei, Wangyang ^a   Zhao, Dong ^a   Ma, Huadong ^a  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

Cameras; Environmental factors; Image resolution; Intelligent vehicles; Sensor systems; Smart phones; Urban areas

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; INTELLIGENT VEHICLE HIGHWAY SYSTEMS; PARETO PRINCIPLE;

COMPLEMENTARY CUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; DISTRIBUTION MODELS; ENVIRONMENT MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS; PARETO DISTRIBUTIONS; SENSOR SYSTEMS; URBAN AREAS; URBAN SURVEILLANCE;

SMARTPHONES;

EID: 84946903655     PISSN: 15361233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMC.2015.2404786     Document Type: Article

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