Team: Traffic Monitoring

Typical applications from the traffic sector are the detection of moving and static objects from remote sensing data, such as vehicle detection and vehicle tracking in image sequences, monitoring of crowded public spaces as well as the area-based segmentation of traffic areas, for example to distinguish between footpaths and cycle paths. For this purpose, both the latest AI-based algorithms are developed and highly accurate benchmark data sets are created, which are made available to the public for training and validating own methods.

In the traffic monitoring team, complete systems and process chains including hardware and software are developed. This enables seamless image processing from the image acquisition to the transfer of the evaluation results. The data is usually recorded during flight campaigns with self-developed sensor systems on aircraft, helicopters or UAVs. Especially the airborne optical 3K and 4k camera systems with their high-rate and high resolution serial images enable a fast recording of large areas as well as an immediate further processing, evaluation and provision of the data. In the past, both current aerial images and information derived from them on traffic or the condition of roads and buildings were able to support authorities and organisations with security tasks (BOS) during disasters and major events, e.g. during disaster and civil defense exercises on forest fires, landslides and flood monitoring missions in Germany, Cyprus, Spain, and Austria.