Paper Info
Title
Where and when should sensors move? Sampling using the expected value of information.
Abstract
In case of an environmental accident, initially available data are often insufficient for properly managing the situation. In this paper, new sensor observations are iteratively added to an initial sample by maximising the global expected value of information of the points for decision making. This is equivalent to minimizing the aggregated expected misclassification costs over the study area. The method considers measurement error and different costs for class omissions and false class commissions. Constraints imposed by a mobile sensor web are accounted for using cost distances to decide which sensor should move to the next sample location. The method is demonstrated using synthetic examples of static and dynamic phenomena. This allowed computation of the true misclassification costs and comparison with other sampling approaches. The probability of local contamination levels being above a given critical threshold were computed by indicator kriging. In the case of multiple sensors being relocated simultaneously, a genetic algorithm was used to find sets of suitable new measurement locations. Otherwise, all grid nodes were searched exhaustively, which is computationally demanding. In terms of true misclassification costs, the method outperformed random sampling and sampling based on minimisation of the kriging variance.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.3390/s121216274
SENSORS
Keywords
Field
DocType
iterative sampling,adaptive sampling,infill sampling,decision analysis,environmental monitoring,geostatistics,mobile sensors
Kriging,Data mining,Adaptive sampling,Minimisation (psychology),Sampling (statistics),Gaussian process,Engineering,Sensor web,Observational error,Genetic algorithm
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
12
12.0
1424-8220
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
11
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sytze de Bruin151.03
Daniela Ballari2202.92
Arnold K. Bregt36312.07