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Sampling and Reconstruction of Spatial Fields using Mobile Sensors

Unnikrishnan, Jayakrishnan  
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Vetterli, Martin  
2013
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Spatial sampling is traditionally studied in a static setting where static sensors scattered around space take measurements of the spatial field at their locations. In this paper we study the emerging paradigm of sampling and reconstructing spatial fields using sensors that move through space. We show that mobile sensing offers some unique advantages over static sensing in sensing bandlimited spatial fields. Since a moving sensor encounters such a spatial field along its path as a time-domain signal, a time-domain anti-aliasing filter can be employed prior to sampling the signal received at the sensor. Such a filtering procedure, when used by a configuration of sensors moving at constant speeds along equispaced parallel lines, leads to a complete suppression of spatial aliasing in the direction of motion of the sensors. We analytically quantify the advantage of using such a sampling scheme over a static sampling scheme by computing the reduction in sampling noise due to the filter. We also analyze the effect of non-uniform sensor speeds on the reconstruction accuracy. Using simulation examples we demonstrate the advantages of mobile sampling over static sampling in practical problems. We extend our analysis to sampling and reconstruction schemes for monitoring time-varying bandlimited fields using mobile sensors. We demonstrate that in some situations we require a lower density of sensors when using a mobile sensing scheme instead of the conventional static sensing scheme. The exact advantage is quantified for a problem of sampling and reconstructing an audio field.

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research article
DOI
10.1109/Tsp.2013.2247599
Web of Science ID

WOS:000317401100016

Author(s)
Unnikrishnan, Jayakrishnan  
Vetterli, Martin  
Date Issued

2013

Publisher

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Published in
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
Volume

61

Issue

9

Start page

2328

End page

2340

Subjects

Mobile sensing

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spatial sampling

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spatial smoothing

URL

URL

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6463464
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REVIEWED

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July 16, 2012
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