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Indoor Positioning with Wireless Local Area Networks (WLAN)

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Kushki, A., Plataniotis, K., Venetsanopoulos, A. (2008). Indoor Positioning with Wireless Local Area Networks (WLAN). In: Shekhar, S., Xiong, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of GIS. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35973-1_629

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