Mobile technologies and services for environmental monitoring: The Citi-Sense-MOB approach

Urban Climate

Volumn 14, Issue , 2015, Pages 370-382

  Castell, Nuria ^a   Kobernus, Mike ^a   Liu, Hai Ying ^a   Schneider, Philipp ^a   Lahoz, William ^a   Berre, Arne J ^b   Noll, Josef ^c  

^a NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR AIR RESEARCH   (Norway)

^b SINTEF   (Norway)

^c University Graduate Centre (UNIK)   (Norway)

Author keywords

Air quality; Citizens' Observatory; Low cost sensors; Mobile platforms; Participatory sensing; Urban environment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84948386086     PISSN: 22120955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.uclim.2014.08.002     Document Type: Article

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