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Introduction to this special issue: geosensor networks

Published: 17 September 2015 Publication History

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The last two decades have seen unprecedented advances in the development of small-scale sensors, as well as inexpensive, small computing platforms and a plethora of wireless communication media. These technological developments have lead to the research area of geosensor networks (GSN), which are wireless sensor networks deployed in geographic space. From a practical perspective, we see GSN often as 'networked geosensors' that live-stream information to the Internet today. Sensors can range from stationary environmental sensors to drones, ocean drifters, autonomous unmanned vehicles collecting environmental data or even humans acting as sensors. A GSN enables us to observe, reason about and react to events in geographic space in near real-time.

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    cover image SIGSPATIAL Special
    SIGSPATIAL Special  Volume 7, Issue 2
    July 2015
    43 pages
    EISSN:1946-7729
    DOI:10.1145/2826686
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    Published: 17 September 2015
    Published in SIGSPATIAL Volume 7, Issue 2

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