part SECTION I: OVERVIEW -- chapter 1 An Overview -- chapter 2 Microsensor Applications -- chapter 3 A Taxonomy of Distributed Sensor Networks -- chapter 4 Contrast with Traditional Systems -- part SECTION II: DISTRIBUTED SENSING AND SIGNAL PROCESSING -- chapter 5 Digital Signal Processing Backgrounds -- chapter 6 Image-Processing Background -- chapter 7 Object Detection and Classification -- chapter 8 Parameter Estimation -- chapter 9 Target Tracking with Self-Organizing Distributed Sensors -- chapter 10 10 -- chapter 11 Environmental Effects -- chapter 12 Detecting and Counteracting Atmospheric Effects -- chapter 13 13 -- chapter 14 Distributed Multi-Target Detection in Sensor Networks -- part SECTION III: INFORMATION FUSION -- chapter 15 Foundations of Data Fusion for Automation -- chapter 16 16 -- chapter 17 Soft Computing Techniques -- chapter 18 Estimation and Kalman Filters -- chapter 19 Data Registration -- chapter 20 Signal Calibration, Estimation for Real-Time Monitoring and Control -- chapter 21 Semantic Information Extraction -- chapter 22 Fusion in the Context of Information Theory -- chapter 23 Multispectral Sensing -- part SECTION IV: SENSOR DEPLOYMENT AND NETWORKING -- chapter 24 Coverage-Oriented Sensor Deployment -- chapter 25 Deployment of Sensors: An Overview -- chapter 26 26 -- chapter 27 Computer Network — Basic Principles -- chapter 28 Location-Centric Networking in Distributed Sensor Networks -- chapter 29 Directed Diffusion -- chapter 30 Data Security Perspectives -- chapter 31 Quality of Service Metrics -- chapter 32 Network Daemons for Distributed Sensor Networks -- part SECTION V: POWER MANAGEMENT -- chapter 33 Designing Energy-Aware Sensor Systems -- chapter 34 Operating System Power Management -- chapter 35 An Energy-Aware Approach for Sensor Data Communication -- chapter 36 36 -- chapter 37 Sensor-Centric Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks -- part SECTION VI: ADAPTIVE TASKING -- chapter 38 Query Processing in Sensor Networks -- chapter 39 Autonomous Software Reconfiguration -- chapter 40 Mobile Code Support -- chapter 41 41 -- chapter 42 Distributed Services -- chapter 43 Adaptive Active Querying -- part SECTION VII: SELF-CONFIGURATION -- chapter 44 Need for Self-Configuration -- chapter 45 Emergence -- chapter 46 Biological Primitives -- chapter 47 Physics and Chemistry -- chapter 48 48 -- chapter 49 Random Networks and Percolation Theory -- chapter 50 50 -- part SECTION VIII: SYSTEM CONTROL -- chapter 51 Example Distributed Sensor Network Control Hierarchy -- part SECTION IX: ENGINEERING EXAMPLES -- chapter 52 SenSoft: Development of a Collaborative Sensor Network -- chapter 53 Statistical Approaches to Cleaning Sensor Data -- chapter 54 Plant Monitoring with Special Reference to Endangered Species -- chapter 55 Designing Distributed Sensor Applications for Wireless Mesh Networks -- part SECTION X: BEAMFORMING -- chapter 56 Beamforming.