Performances of Different Global Positioning System Devices for Time-Location Tracking in Air Pollution Epidemiological Studies

Environmental Health Insights

Volumn 4, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Wu, Jun ^a,b   Jiang, Chengsheng ^a   Liu, Zhen ^c   Houston, Douglas ^a   Jaimes, Guillermo ^a   McConnell, Rob ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

global positioning systems; GPS; time activity

Indexed keywords

EID: 85073205520     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11786302     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4137/EHI.S6246     Document Type: Article

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