Toward Integrated Large-Scale Environmental Monitoring Using WSN/UAV/Crowdsensing: A Review of Applications, Signal Processing, and Future Perspectives

• Published in: Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) Vol. 22; no. 5; p. 1824
• Main Author: Fascista, Alessio
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland MDPI AG 25.02.2022; MDPI
• Subjects: Air pollution; Climate change; Collaboration; Communication; crowdsensing; Drone aircraft; Earthquakes; Environmental monitoring; Environmental Monitoring - methods; Germany; Humans; Internet of Things; Monitoring systems; Natural resources; pollution monitoring; Review; Sensors; Signal processing; Smartphones; United Kingdom; Unmanned aerial vehicles; unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs); Water pollution; Weather; Wireless sensor networks; wireless sensor networks (WSNs); United Kingdom; Germany; unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs); environmental monitoring; signal processing; wireless sensor networks (WSNs); natural disasters; crowdsensing; pollution monitoring

Fighting Earth’s degradation and safeguarding the environment are subjects of topical interest and sources of hot debate in today’s society. According to the United Nations, there is a compelling need to take immediate actions worldwide and to implement large-scale monitoring policies aimed at count...