At the landscape scale, the soil moisture distribution derives from the combination of hydrologic, pedologic, and geomorphic processes. This study uses multicollocated factorial cokriging to determine the spatial scale(s) at which soil properties and terrain attributes affect the soil moisture...

Ubiquitous computing application developers have limited options for a practical activity and location sensing technology that is easy-to-deploy and cost-effective. In this dissertation, I have developed a class of activity monitoring systems called infrastructure mediated sensing (IMS), which...

File concatenation is an approach that can be used to integrate two (or more) sources of data which refer to the same target population. It consists in considering the concatenation of the two files as a unique data set. Although this approach seems to be natural in an integration procedure, it...