System and method for identifying parking spaces and parking occupancy based on satellite and/or aerial images

A method for identifying on-street parking spots of an area based on at least one of satellite and aerial images of said area, the method comprising

• retrieving and processing a plurality of at least one of satellite and aerial images by at least quality benchmarking and georeferencing the images;
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• detecting vehicles and street sections in the georeferenced images;
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• identifying on-street vehicle lanes based on the detected street sections and vehicles;
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• identifying parking lanes and deriving individual parking spots on them;
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• consolidating data from the plurality of at least one of satellite and aerial images of the area to compute an average parking occupancy in said area.

A computer-implemented system for identifying on-street parking spots based on at least one of satellite and aerial images, the system comprising

• a storage component configured to store a plurality of at least one of satellite and aerial images and map data;
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• a processing component configured for
• retrieving and processing a plurality of at least one of satellite and aerial images from the storage component by at least quality controlling and georeferencing the images;
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• for each image, detecting objects of interest comprising at least detected vehicles, computing street sections based on map data corresponding to the images, and assigning each detected object to a street section for each street section, identifying on-street vehicle lanes based on the detected objects of interest;
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• combining street sections based on the on-street vehicle lane from the plurality of at least one of satellite and aerial images;
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• in the combined sections, identifying parking lanes and individual parking spots comprised thereon;
• an output component configured to output the individual parking spots determined by the processing component.