Recent advances and perspective on studies of moving vehicles detection

Moving vehicles detection is a key technology to realize traffic monitoring and tracking in ITS. With the development of earth observation technology, it becomes a new research focus to detect moving vehicles by use of remote sensing (RS) data. A brief summary of the recent international progress in detecting moving vehicles based on RS is given here, and the studies of moving vehicles detection are divided into three types of based on airborne RS images, satellite SAR images and optical satellite images. According to the characteristic's analysis and contrast of the three different types, it points out that moving vehicles detection based on optical satellite images and satellite SAR data will be the mainstream of development.