Road Surface Mapping

Project Description

This project is a road mapping system that searches for damage such as potholes. The current system for road management to locate and identify road damage relies upon commuters to report the damage. The Department of Transportation would then have to send a team out to evaluate if the damage is significant enough to warrant a repair team. This system is slow and labor intensive and becomes even worse in remote areas. The goal of this project is to make detection and analysis of the road quicker, safer and easier for the road maintenance teams. By creating a device to map the surface of the road we enable maintenance teams to check the entire surface of the road without leaving their vehicle. The software used to analyze the damage can then compute the depth and size of the hole indicating whether the damage needs to be repaired and how much fill material would be required for the repair.