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Local Positioning for Environmental Monitoring in Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks ˙ ∗ † ∗ Mustafa Ilhan Akbas¸ , Matthias R. Brust , and Damla Turgut ∗School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science University of Central Florida, Orlando FL Email: {miakbas,turgut}@eecs.ucf.edu †Computer Science Division Technological Institute of Aeronautics, Brazil Email: matthias.brust@ita.br Abstract—Location estimation of sensor nodes is an essential nectivity and direction or angle of signal arrival are widely part of most applications for wireless sensor and actor networks used aids to support positioning in WSANs. (WSAN). The ambiguous location information often makes the The environment considered in this work is a river going collected data useless in these applications. Environmental mon- itoring in particular, relies on an accurate position estimation in through dense Amazon rain forest (see Fig. 1). The actors are order to process or evaluate the collected data. In this paper, we positioned at specific accessible spots on each side of the river, present a novel and scalable approach for positioning of mobile while the sensor nodes are thrown into the water. As the sensor sensor nodes with the goal of monitoring the Amazon river. The nodes float, they collect information about the environment actors in the scenario are stationary and positioned at reachable and transmit the