The European road accident observatory

The European road accident observator

The New European Road Safety Observatory – SafetyNet

In 2004 there were over 43,000 people who were killed on the roads of the 25 member states of the European Union (EU), additionally around 3.3 million people were injured1. The costs to society exceeded €180 billion which is around twice the annual budget of the European Commission and 2% of EU GDP. In 2001 the European Commission adopted a target of reducing fatalities by 50% within a decade and identified several areas where it could make a direct contribution within the constraints of subsidiarity. The target was reaffirmed in 2003 in the Road Safety Action Programme that provided further detail about actions it planned to introduce. A key element in the Programme concerned the development of a new European Road Safety Observatory to gather data and knowledge to inform future safety policies. The development of the Observatory was to be undertaken by the Sixth Framework funded project “SafetyNet”. This paper describes the structure of the Observatory and the progress in developing new EU-wide accident data information within SafetyNet

Classification error for each flight and for each survey (combination of CIR and RGB flights).

<p>Surveys in spring and early summer gave the best results and the RGB camera clearly outperforms the color infra-red camera.</p

Zoom-in overview of the time series of high resolution forested orthophotomosaics (20cm GSD).

<p>The 6 first RGB orthophotomosaics are illustrated. Delineated trees are colored by species; English oak: green—poplars: orange—sycamore maple: blue—common ash: white—birches: purple.</p

Aerial photo of elephants taken at a height of 300 m.

<p>Aerial photo of elephants taken at a height of 300 m.</p

Elephants seen along transects.

<p>Elephants seen along transects.</p

Photo of elephants bathing in the Akwazena pond.

<p>(a) Ground image and (b) Aerial image of an elephant group bathing in the Akwazena pond. The dotted yellow line on both images links to two referenced features (an elephant and a tree). Picture (c) is an enlargement of part of the aerial picture.</p

Differences in spectral response captured with a compact camera mounted on an UAS for two tree crowns (birch and poplar species).

<p>Density curves for the red, green and blue band are depicted on the right.</p

Individual aerial RGB images of a forest opening from survey 1 (spring), 5 (summer) and 10 (autumn).

<p>Individual aerial RGB images of a forest opening from survey 1 (spring), 5 (summer) and 10 (autumn).</p

Added value of multitemporal datasets for species discrimination.

<p>The 5 best two-date combinations and the 5 best three-date combinations. Survey 3 (<b>2013-05-28</b>, highlighted in bold) was present in all the combinations, and survey 4 (<i>2012-06-05</i>, in italic writing) was involved in all the three-date combinations.</p