Survey and Analysis of Land Satellite Remote Sensing Applied in Highway Transportations Infrastructure and System Engineering

The US Department of Transportation (US DOT) initiated the Commercial Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Technology Application to Transportation program in 1999 in collaboration with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). With the efforts in the past several years, tremendous accomplishments have been made. This paper makes a survey for the applications of land observation satellite remote sensing in transportation infrastructure and system engineering. The survey will be divided into the following fields: (1) remote sensing applied in transportation infrastructure, such as pavement construction and maintenance, and management; (2) Remote Sensing applied in transportation planning; (3) remote sensing applied in transportation safety analysis and monitoring; (4) remote sensing applied in transportation operation and analysis; and (5) remote sensing applied in transportation environmental analysis, such as ecosystem analysis, air pollution, etc. With an analysis of approximate over 150 academic papers and technical reports, some problems for remote sensing applied in transportation infrastructure and system engineering has been explored, and future development and application promising are concluded.