VEGETATION DETECTION AND ALERT METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR A RAILWAY VEHICLE

    公开(公告)号:EP4095012A2

    公开(公告)日:2022-11-30

    申请号:EP22175055.7

    申请日:2018-04-13

    IPC分类号: B61L23/04 B61L25/02

    摘要: The present invention relates to an acquisition device (104) mountable to a railway vehicle (106) for detecting vegetation, the acquisition device (104) comprising an imaging sensor (1510) configured to capture images of an environment of the railway vehicle (106) including a clearance zone (200) around a railroad track (114) on which the railway vehicle (106) moves, the imaging sensor (1510) being configured to capture the images from the railway vehicle (106) as the railway vehicle (106) moves on the railroad track (114), a geospatial position sensor (1512) configured to determine a geolocation of the geospatial position sensor (1512) and thereby the environment imaged by the imaging sensor (1510), and a processor (1502) coupled to the imaging sensor (1510) and geospatial position sensor (1512), and programmed to at least reference the images captured by the imaging sensor (1510) to the geolocation determined by the geospatial position sensor (1512) to form geospatial images of the environment including the clearance zone (200), and for one or more geospatial images of the geospatial images process the one or more geospatial images to produce a geometric computer model of the environment in which objects in the environment are represented by a collection of geometry detect vegetation in the clearance zone (200) based on the geometric computer model, and upload the one or more geospatial images and a notification of detected vegetation from which a backend server (110) is configured to generate an alert for a client (112).