Overview
- Brings understanding of positioning technology to readers from a variety of disciplines
- Reviews multiple techniques, providing insight on the pros, cons and challenges related to each
- Designed to be a tutorial on basic principles, avoiding unnecessary detail
- Offers lessons learned from a cross-sector international network, from both academic and industrial perspective and from a multi-cultural view
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book provides an overview of positioning technologies, applications and services in a format accessible to a wide variety of readers. Readers who have always wanted to understand how satellite-based positioning, wireless network positioning, inertial navigation, and their combinations work will find great value in this book. Readers will also learn about the advantages and disadvantages of different positioning methods, their limitations and challenges. Cognitive positioning, adding the brain to determine which technologies to use at device runtime, is introduced as well. Coverage also includes the use of position information for Location Based Services (LBS), as well as context-aware positioning services, designed for better user experience.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Elena-Simona Lohan is an Associate Professor at the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering at Tampere University of Technology (TUT). She is also a Visiting Professor at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain. She received an M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from Polytechnics University of Bucharest, Romania, in 1997, a D.E.A. degree (French equivalent of master) in Econometrics, at ´ Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France, in 1998, and a Ph.D. degree in Telecommunications from TUT, in 2003. She has more than 170 international publications, 3patents and 2 patent applications. She is serving as Associate Editor to IET Radar, Sonar and Navigation journal and to RIN Cambridge Journal of Navigation since 2013. Her current research interests include wireless location techniques based on signals of opportunity and cognitive spectrum sensing for positioning purposes. She has participated in the Marie Curie ITN network MULTI-POS as scientist in charge and equality officer.
Henk Wymeersch is a Professor in Communication Systems with the Department of Signals and Systems at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden. Prior to joining Chalmers, he was a postdoctoral researcher from 2005 until 2009 with the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Henk Wymeersch obtained the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering/Applied sciences in 2005 from Ghent University, Belgium. He served as Associate Editor for IEEE Communication Letters (2009-2013), IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (since 2013), and IEEE Transactions on Communications (since 2016). His current research interests include cooperative systems and intelligent transportation. He has participated in the Marie Curie ITN network MULTI-POS as scientist in charge.
Gonzalo Seco-Granados received the PhD degree on Telecommunications Engineering from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya in 2000 and an MBA from IESE in 2002. From 2002 to 2005, he was member of the technical staff the European Space Agency, involved in the design of the Galileo system. Since 2006, he is Associate Professor at the Department of Telecommunications, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. He has been principal investigator of over 25 research projects. In 2014, he received an ICREA Academia fellowship. In 2015, he was
Fulbright Visiting Scholar at University of California, Irvine. His research interests include the design of signals and reception techniques for satellite-based and terrestrial positioning systems, multi-antenna receivers and signal-level integrity. He has participated in the Marie Curie ITN network MULTI-POS as scientist in charge.
Ossi Nykänen works for M-Files, helping enterprises find, share, and secure documents and information. Dr. O. Nykänen also serves as an Adjunct Professor at Tampere University of Technology, Department of Mathematics. His long-term research interests include semantic computing, machine learning, information modeling and visualization, (computer-supported) mathematics, and the related applications. He is affiliated with many industrial and academic research networks, and is an advocate of international web standards. He has participated in the Marie Curie ITN network MULTI-POS as scientist in charge.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Multi-Technology Positioning
Editors: Jari Nurmi, Elena-Simona Lohan, Henk Wymeersch, Gonzalo Seco-Granados, Ossi Nykänen
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50427-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-50426-1Published: 04 April 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-84399-5Published: 08 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-50427-8Published: 28 March 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 348
Number of Illustrations: 16 b/w illustrations, 111 illustrations in colour
Topics: Circuits and Systems, Signal, Image and Speech Processing, Computer Communication Networks, Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry