Road Extraction and Distress Assessment by Spaceborne Airborne and Terrestrial Platforms

<p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(23 43 77 1)>This reprint focuses on the applied research on remote sensing technologies for road monitoring and extraction. Innovative and multidisciplinary approaches on road distress assessment using spaceborne aerial and terrestrial platforms in different experimental surroundings have garnered interest and need to be included more in regular road maintenance surveys.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(23 43 77 1)>The development of high-performance technologies such as Very High-Resolution Satellite Imagery and Unmanned Aircraft Systems are promising to achieve extraordinary results and the development of standardized methodologies is focal for integration with standard field surveys and reference legislation.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(23 43 77 1)>Special attention is given to spaceborne airborne and terrestrial platforms UAV and UGV Pavement Management Systems (PMS) GIS modeling for management plan AI deep learning data fusion geomatics Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) LiDAR and laser scanning among others.</span></p>