8. Glossary

Accelerometer; accelerometer

An accelerometer is a sensor that measures acceleration along an axis. A complete accelerometer will usually provide acceleration along three orthogonal axes.

Supervised classification

Classification is the procedure used to assign an individual (or set of measurements) to a membership class. Supervised classification is classification based on a priori knowledge of a learning base, for which the class to which a certain number of individuals belong is known.

Classifier; classify

Classification program.