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Vehicular Ad hoc Network (VANET) is a wireless network that is formed on the fly between a collection of cars connected by wireless links. VANET has gained a great amount of attention during recent years and is used for a large number of safety (accident warning, weather notification) and non-safety (multimedia, gaming) applications. Vehicular Network is one of the most growing type of wireless...

Estimating the spatial position of organisms is essential to quantify interactions between the organism and the characteristics of its surroundings, for example, predator-prey interactions, habitat selection, and social associations. Because marine mammals spend most of their time under water and may appear at the surface only briefly, determining their exact geographic location can be challeng...

At the University of Minnesota, we are exploring VGI in the context of an online bike map: a geowiki for bicyclists [5]. We are building a system to enable cyclists to collaboratively build a database of geographic information relevant to them, including a fully editable map. This VGI will then be used as input for personalized route finding. In order to build a successful repository of volunte...

In the last years, there has been a lot of effort in the research on routing in mobile ad hoc networks. Promising applications of MANETs, e.g. in the automotive domain, are the drive for the design of inter-vehicle networks. So far, several projects in this field have chosen geographic routing approaches because of their outstanding performance and the possibility to support location-based appl...

BACKGROUND The European Pollutant Emission Register in Spain (EPER-Spain) is a public inventory of pollutant industries created by decision of the European Union. The location of these industries is geocoded and the first published data correspond to 2001. Publication of these data will allow for quantification of the effect of proximity to one or more such plant on cancer and all-cause mortali...

As sensor networks are deployed over various terrains, the complexity of their topology continues to grow. Voids in networks often cause existing geographic routing algorithms to fail. In this paper, we introduce a novel concept: virtual position to address this issue. A virtual position is the middle position of all direct neighbors of a node. Such virtual position reflects the neighborhood of...

In this work, we report the development and performance of single-gap timing RPCs equipped with a 3mm FWHM resolution bidimensional position-sensitive readout and reaching a timing resolution of 55 ps s at an efficiency of 75% for MIPs. These chambers are aimed to be applied in a multilayer geometry, forming small and very accurate TOF systems. The avalanche localization capability would provid...