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Project
Summary
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While computer
networks and geography may not appear to have much in common, a
collaborative effort was launched between the University of Kansas'
Information & Telecommunications Technology Center and Kansas
Applied Remote Sensing Program to create a more advanced wireless
802.11b mapping and network visualization method. This new procedure
uses wireless network data collected from walking and/or driving
scans, aerial photography, and interpolation techniques to create
highly detailed network coverage and signal strength maps.
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This
example image represents the signal emitted from a single
wireless access point located in downtown Lawrence, Kansas.
The signal strength degrades from the stronger values in
blue to weaker values in orange.
For more network
pictures check our Network Imagery
page or to learn how this map was created, view our Procedure.
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| May
25, 2002 Updates - Discussion Forum and New Study |
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Since
this work went online back in January, we have received questions
from many of you concerning various aspects of the wireless
illustrations presented here. Without question, we would like
all of you to take this work and run with it however you see
fit. To meet this need, we have added a Discussion
Forum to this site. We will continue addressing your questions
in this public forum and hopefully those of you who have been
creating your own visualizations can provide your experiences
as well.
Over the
past few months we have also been looking more intently at
the distribution of wireless networks in Lawrence, Kansas.
The results of this new project, shown in the Distribution
Study, demonstrate how a GIS can be used to correlate
wireless network distribution with US Census data.
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