Visibility monitoring using conventional roadside cameras - Emerging applications

Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies

Volumn 22, Issue , 2012, Pages 17-28

  Babari, Raouf ^a   Hautière, Nicolas ^a   Dumont, Éric ^a   Paparoditis, Nicolas ^b   Misener, James ^c  

^a Gustave Eiffel University   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS EST   (France)

^c BOOZ ALLEN HAMILTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Air quality; Atmospheric visibility; Camera; Intelligent transportation systems; Meteorological observation; Road safety

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; AIR QUALITY; AIR TRANSPORTATION; CAMERAS; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; MOTOR TRANSPORTATION; ROADSIDES;

AIR QUALITY MONITORING; ATMOSPHERIC VISIBILITY; CONVENTIONAL HIGHWAYS; EMERGING APPLICATIONS; INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS; METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATION; NON-LINEAR REGRESSION; ROAD SAFETY;

VISIBILITY;

AIR QUALITY; CALIBRATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM; LIGHT EFFECT; NONLINEARITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TRANSPORTATION SAFETY; TRANSPORTATION TECHNOLOGY; VISIBILITY;

EID: 84855175119     PISSN: 0968090X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trc.2011.11.012     Document Type: Article

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