The Mobile Data Collection Unit was developed and is being used by GEODATA. It is a vehicle equipped with high definition cameras, GPS receivers and other devices, which -managed exclusively by its driver- continuously collects images of the surrounding area, as it moves.

The material obtained from the footage taken along a road axis provides the ability to extract multitude of data with exceptional accuracy and speed, such as: street names and numbers, prohibitions, signals, points of interest and other useful data.

Each collected frame is marked with time, coordinates and direction of the vehicle and is stored compressed for both sides of the road, as the vehicle moves.

At the office, the material is transferred to a central system from where it is retrieved through a special application and the required information is indexed.

The main advantage of this system is the ability to reuse the recorded material for future data mining, and of course the speed with which the actual collection of data is performed, by many workstations simultaneously, and in office conditions.