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Advances in small, low-cost microelectronic and mechanical systems (MEMS) with limited on-board processing and wireless communication capabilities, and the development of novel sensor materials enables us to build a new generation of technology that consists of large collections of untethered, small-form, battery-powered computing nodes with various sensing functions. These sensor nodes can be densely distributed over a geographic region, and are able to measure environmental processes, such as weather development, seismic activity, or track the movements of toxic fumes at a level of detail that was not possible before. The continued trend towards miniaturization and inexpensiveness of sensor nodes makes it possible that such sensor nodes are less than a cubic millimeter in size, and sensor networks can be made up of thousands or even millions of sensors.
Geosensor networks(GSN) are a specialized application of...
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Nittel, S. (2017). Geosensor Networks. In: Shekhar, S., Xiong, H., Zhou, X. (eds) Encyclopedia of GIS. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17885-1_497
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