> Industrial News > News   German Radar Satellite Generates Precise Traffic Information   The German Aerospace Center (DLR) has announced it has begun several months of tests into the feasibility of obtaining traffic information via its new radar satellite TerraSAR-X. The German satellite is going to monitor selected sections of motorway in Europe and in the United States. The aim of this project is to develop a procedure for large-scale traffic data capture, independent of ground systems, which permits data relayed to various traffic information providers. In contrast to measurement procedures used to date, most of them stationary cameras, information gleaned by satellite can yield up-to-the-minute information, even from roads without sensors, whatever the weather, regardless of borders.   Time:2008-03-28 Source:NaviForum Shanghai News Center Relative