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Comprehensive monitoring of movement behaviour and raising dynamics in crowds allow an early detection and prediction of critical situations that may arise at large-scale events. This work presents a video based airborne monitoring system enabling the automated analysis of crowd dynamics and to derive potentially critical situations. The results can be used to prevent critical situations by supporting security staff to control the crowd dynamics early enough. This approach enables preventing upraise of panic behaviour by automated early identification of hazard zones and offering a reliable basis for early intervention by security forces. This approach allows the surveillance and analysis of large scale monitored areas of interest and raising specific alarms at the management and control system in case of potentially critical situations. The integrated modules extend classical mission management by providing essential decision support possibilities for assessing the situation and managing security and emergency crews on site within short time frames.
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This work has been partially funded by the Ministry of Austria for Transport, Innovation and Technology within the Austrian Security Research Programme KIRAS: Project 845479: “MONITOR: Near real-time multisensor monitoring and short-term forecasts to support the safety management at mass events”.
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Almer, A., Perko, R., Schrom-Feiertag, H., Schnabel, T., Paletta, L. (2016). Critical Situation Monitoring at Large Scale Events from Airborne Video Based Crowd Dynamics Analysis. In: Sarjakoski, T., Santos, M., Sarjakoski, L. (eds) Geospatial Data in a Changing World. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33783-8_20
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