TY - GEN A1 - Hicke, Konstantin T1 - Urban traffic monitoring using Distributed Acoustic Sensing along laid fiber optic cables N2 - The feasibility of traffic monitoring along a major urban road using Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) is demonstrated. We present measurement results of conventional intensity-based DAS along a dark fiber in a tubed fiber optic cable buried roadside. With only minimal postprocessing different classes of traffic participants can be distinguished (cars, bikes, pedestrians). Different methods for pre-processing raw data are compared, especially with regard to providing suitable inputs for pattern recognition algorithms. Furthermore, the various challenges for automatized vehicle detection and classification related to varying sensitivity and inhomogeneous signal propagation are discussed. Sensitivity fluctuations and variations are in part inherent to the measurement technology and originate in part in ground conditions. The measurement quality and usefulness for traffic monitoring of intensity-based DAS is compared to that of state-of-the-art phase-resolved DAS, allowing quantitative evaluation of vibration signals. T2 - EAGE GeoTech 2021 Second EAGE Workshop on Distributed Fibre Optic Sensing CY - Online meeting DA - 01.03.2021 KW - Distributed fiber optic sensing KW - Distributed acoustic sensing KW - DAS KW - Traffic monitoring KW - Road condition monitoring PY - 2021 UR - https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-bam/frontdoor/index/index/docId/52215 AN - OPUS4-52215 AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany