SMART VEHICLE DETECTION METHODOLOGY USING SATELLITE IMAGING

There is an increasing demand for traffic monitoring of densely populated areas. The traffic flow on main roads can partially be measured by fixed installed sensors like induction loops, bridge sensors and stationary cameras. Traffic on smaller roads – which represent the main part of urban road networks – is scarcely monitored and information about on-road parked vehicles is not collected. Hence new applications like traffic monitoring and vehicle detection from these images have achieved considerable attention on international conferences. The presented approach focuses on the detection of single vehicles by extracting of vehicle queues from satellite imagery.