TY - GEN
T1 - Predicting RF path loss in forests using satellite measurements of vegetation indices
AU - Jiang, Sujuan
AU - Portillo-Quintero, Carlos
AU - Sanchez-Azofeifa, Arturo
AU - MacGregor, Mike H.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 IEEE.
PY - 2014/10/16
Y1 - 2014/10/16
N2 - We report preliminary results from a novel method that predicts the value of the RF path loss exponent (PLE) from satellite remote-sensing observations. The value of the PLE is required when designing wireless sensor networks for environmental monitoring. The model was produced by correlating field measurements of path loss to Landsat 8 data for three dates in 2013. The correlations are strong (R2 > 0.87), and exhibit high statistical significance (p < 0.01). As far as we know, this is the first reported work that links remote sensing observations to field predictions of RF loss. The work reported here is preliminary because we were only able to gather field observations for three dates in 2013. Now that we know the approach holds some promise, we plan to extend the work with a much more aggressive field campaign in the spring and summer of 2014.
AB - We report preliminary results from a novel method that predicts the value of the RF path loss exponent (PLE) from satellite remote-sensing observations. The value of the PLE is required when designing wireless sensor networks for environmental monitoring. The model was produced by correlating field measurements of path loss to Landsat 8 data for three dates in 2013. The correlations are strong (R2 > 0.87), and exhibit high statistical significance (p < 0.01). As far as we know, this is the first reported work that links remote sensing observations to field predictions of RF loss. The work reported here is preliminary because we were only able to gather field observations for three dates in 2013. Now that we know the approach holds some promise, we plan to extend the work with a much more aggressive field campaign in the spring and summer of 2014.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84932643900&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/LCNW.2014.6927707
DO - 10.1109/LCNW.2014.6927707
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84932643900
T3 - Proceedings - Conference on Local Computer Networks, LCN
SP - 592
EP - 596
BT - Proceedings of the 39th Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks, LCN 2014
A2 - Aschenbruck, Nils
A2 - Kanhere, Salil
A2 - Akkaya, Kemal
PB - IEEE Computer Society
T2 - 39th Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks, LCN 2014
Y2 - 8 September 2014 through 11 September 2014
ER -