Detecting and tracking cars from videos taken from space

What is it about?

Satellite high resolution videos are utilized to detect individual cars and then they are tracked through the entire frames causing to find their velocity and acceleration. This is helpful for monitoring roads or designing management plans.

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Why is it important?

One can monitor city roads in a very large scale. This will be very helpful to design traffic management strategies. Compare this method with simple highway cameras that only see a portion of the road. We can see the entire region! Consider the security application; satellite videos are so much helpful.