Using Imagery and Image Analysis Software to Manage Highway Assets Government agencies and departments across the country face a significant challenge to manage the every-growing inventory of highway assets including painted markings, signs, and other roadway features. Creating an inventory of these assets is essential to the planning and maintenance activities that keep our roadways safe and navigable. Like other agencies, The Maryland State Highway Administration (SHA) was challenged to find a cost- effective, accurate way to maintain their own transportation network. The State of Maryland has hundreds of thousands of road features that are distributed along a transportation network over 5,000 miles long. A critical need for the SHA was to identify all painted roadway markings and

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