Space Based Automatic Identification and Monitoring System for the Large-Scale Railway Transportation, GP-AIMS

Kurzfassung

The globalized economy relies on fast, reliable and cost ecient ways of transporting goods over wide distances. Until the recent past, vessel and air transportation were the preferred choice for long distance transportation. Facing a problematical economic development as well as rising fuel costs, rail road transportation is getting more and more interesting. The GPAIMS feasibility study investigates ways to achieve a monitoring system for large-scale railway transportation in order to support the railroad sector by optimizing rail-workload and at the same time increasing security. This monitoring includes sensor data acquired on board of the trains, data fusion with GMES data acquired by the two German Earth observation satellites TerraSAR-X and TanDEM-X as well as the implementation of a spaceborne surveillance network based on small satellite systems.