Unmanned aerial vehicle based wireless sensor network for marine-coastal environment monitoring

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2017, Pages

  Trasviña Moreno, Carlos A ^a   Blasco, Rubén ^a   Marco, Álvaro ^a   Casas, Roberto ^a   Trasviña Castro, Armando ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^b CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA Y DE EDUCACIÓN SUPERIOR DE ENSENADA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

LoRa; Low power electronics; LPWAN; Marine monitoring; Remote sensing; UAV; WSN

Indexed keywords

BUOYS; LOW POWER ELECTRONICS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL SENSING; LONG-RANGE COMMUNICATIONS; LORA; LPWAN; MARINE MONITORING; MOBILE DATA COLLECTORS; SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 85014282774     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s17030460     Document Type: Article

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