Patrick W Cheung

US Patent:

20100091834, Apr 15, 2010

Filed:

Nov 10, 2009

Appl. No.:

12/615874

Inventors:

Patrick Y.H. Cheung - New York NY, US
Nicholas F. Maxemchuk - Mountainside NY, US

Assignee:

The Trustees of Columbia University in The City of New York - New York NY

International Classification:

H04B 1/66

US Classification:

375240

Abstract:

Systems and methods for telescopic data compression in sensor networks are disclosed herein. An exemplary method of the disclosed subject matter for telescopically compressing data received from a plurality of sensors in a network adapted to detect a field includes broadcasting a first set of sampling positions to sensors, forming a first set of clusters of sensors based on the sampling positions, receiving data from the sensors contained within the clusters, performing local interpolation of the received data, reconstructing a representation of the field using the interpolated data, and determining areas of interest based on the reconstructed representation of the field.