Monitoring Road maintenance using video-geotagging in geographical information system: an innovative approach

Abstract

Maintenance of roads is a key concern for smooth flow of traffic and goods for any economy to thrive. The maintenance part has been limited in GIS to information collected through ground-based surveys, GPS location of affected road area, uploading geo-tagged photos shared by public through mobile app on GIS data. The present work focuses on one such innovative approach using geo-tagging of videos of road surface with Road layer in GIS. Stretches of road in and around Ludhiana city of Punjab to reflect different scenarios such as roads located in open village area, highways, and broad and congested city roads have been used for understanding condition of surface of road in a contiguous fashion.