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Sensors, Volume 17, Issue 1

January 2017 - 216 articles

Cover Story: Autonomous driving sets a disruptive paradigm of mobility which relies on different technological advances such as reliable sensors capable of providing accurate knowledge of the environment, AI-based algorithms which provide precise situation awareness, robust control architectures for vehicle's maneuverability and complex behavior models comprising drivers, pedestrians, vehicles or traffic. View this paper
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Articles (216)

  • Article
  • Open Access
109 Citations
13,171 Views
21 Pages

22 January 2017

To understand driving environments effectively, it is important to achieve accurate detection and classification of objects detected by sensor-based intelligent vehicle systems, which are significantly important tasks. Object detection is performed f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,157 Views
10 Pages

22 January 2017

This paper presents a magnetically sensitive transistor using a nc-Si:H/c-Si heterojunction as an emitter junction. By adopting micro electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) technology and chemical vapor deposition (CVD) method, the nc-Si:H/c-Si heterojunc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,578 Views
20 Pages

22 January 2017

The radiometric capability of on-orbit sensors should be updated on time due to changes induced by space environmental factors and instrument aging. Some sensors, such as Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), have onboard calibrators...

  • Review
  • Open Access
88 Citations
13,088 Views
16 Pages

22 January 2017

This review focuses on polymer field-effect transistor (PFET) based gas sensor with polymer as the sensing layer, which interacts with gas analyte and thus induces the change of source-drain current (ΔISD). Dependent on the sensing layer which can be...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,134 Views
24 Pages

21 January 2017

The usable satellite spectrum is becoming scarce due to static spectrum allocation policies. Cognitive radio approaches have already demonstrated their potential towards spectral efficiency for providing more spectrum access opportunities to secondar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
10,592 Views
11 Pages

A Lift-Off-Tolerant Magnetic Flux Leakage Testing Method for Drill Pipes at Wellhead

  • Jianbo Wu,
  • Hui Fang,
  • Long Li,
  • Jie Wang,
  • Xiaoming Huang,
  • Yihua Kang,
  • Yanhua Sun and
  • Chaoqing Tang

21 January 2017

To meet the great needs for MFL (magnetic flux leakage) inspection of drill pipes at wellheads, a lift-off-tolerant MFL testing method is proposed and investigated in this paper. Firstly, a Helmholtz coil magnetization method and the whole MFL testin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
9,530 Views
15 Pages

Ubiquitous Emergency Medical Service System Based on Wireless Biosensors, Traffic Information, and Wireless Communication Technologies: Development and Evaluation

  • Tan-Hsu Tan,
  • Munkhjargal Gochoo,
  • Yung-Fu Chen,
  • Jin-Jia Hu,
  • John Y. Chiang,
  • Ching-Su Chang,
  • Ming-Huei Lee,
  • Yung-Nian Hsu and
  • Jiin-Chyr Hsu

21 January 2017

This study presents a new ubiquitous emergency medical service system (UEMS) that consists of a ubiquitous tele-diagnosis interface and a traffic guiding subsystem. The UEMS addresses unresolved issues of emergency medical services by managing the se...

  • Article
  • Open Access
114 Citations
16,728 Views
12 Pages

Effective Calibration of Low-Cost Soil Water Content Sensors

  • Heye Reemt Bogena,
  • Johan Alexander Huisman,
  • Bernd Schilling,
  • Ansgar Weuthen and
  • Harry Vereecken

21 January 2017

Soil water content is a key variable for understanding and modelling ecohydrological processes. Low-cost electromagnetic sensors are increasingly being used to characterize the spatio-temporal dynamics of soil water content, despite the reduced accur...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
9,802 Views
9 Pages

21 January 2017

With 1.6 million deaths per year, lung cancer is one of the leading causes of death worldwide. One reason for this high number is the absence of a preventive medical examination method. Many diagnoses occur in a late cancer stage with a low survival...

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