Wacken Open Air – major event situation assessment
Wacken Open Air – major event situation assessment
The 'Wacken Open Air' music festival attracts over 70,000 visitors every year. To enable the organisers to better assess the current situation on the festival site, DLR produced a situation map. Tents and cars were automatically detected and classified based on aerial images. The DLR Earth Observation Center contributed its 3K camera system, which has a resolution of 13 centimetres, and near-real-time data processing. In future, these technologies could also be used in the humanitarian field, for example, to record the situation in refugee camps or to evaluate objects in disaster areas.
