Objectives It is difficult for the traditional traffic information acquisition method to obtain the real-time dynamic traffic flow information of large scope and full coverage. With urbanization, the increasing number of supertall buildings makes the city skyline a favorable platform for earth observation. This paper studies the urban remote sensing video production and traffic information extraction method using the urban skyline as the observation platform.
Methods First, the earth observation data shooting is carried out in the super-tall buildings. Then, the original oblique observation data is corrected by orthography, which is further fused with the satellite image to generate a large range of remote sensing video data of the city. Finally, we train a deep learning model and use it for vehicle classification and identification. The number and density of vehicles in the area are calculated based on the identification results.
Results This paper carries out data collection and processing analysis on the sightseeing floor of Ping, an Building in Shenzhen. Results show that the proposed method can produce low-cost, long-time, large-scale and high-quality urban remote sensing video. The vehicle detection based on the remote sensing video have high accuracy.
Conclusions The proposed framework can be used to effectively monitor the regional traffic flow and sever for the smart city management. Furthermore, based on its capability of long-time, high-resolution, full-coverage and real-time remote sensing, this method can also be applied to many other urban management fields, such as urban disaster emergency response, crowd monitoring, and construction site monitoring.
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