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Traffic Operational Environment

The intended operational environment is over an area with widely varying geographical terrain containing traffic networks in city, suburban and rural areas, which may be both densely and sparsely populated by vehicles ranging from passenger cars to tractor-trailers. The full complexity of the operational environment will be developed iteratively, beginning with particular types of traffic networks and geographical terrain suitable for testing certain types of functionality and then extending the environment as new functionality is added.

The activities in this operational environment will be those that one would expect from familiarity with normal road traffic. From the point of view of the WITAS UAV, the operational environment is observed using a sensory platform containing an active vision system which also closely integrated with the operation of the UAV in both semi- and fully autonomous mode. The UAV's "understanding" of the environment is therefore dictated by its sensory capabilities and by the major tasks that are defined for it. They are:

  1. to monitor traffic situations,
  2. to identify and track individual vehicles,
  3. to identify episodic behavior of both individual and groups of vehicles,
  4. to gather data pertaining to road network use and abuse,
  5. to provide assistance to emergency services, and
  6. to serve as a mobile sensory platform with real-time information gathering and processing capabilities.

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