Abstract
Scene analysis using CCTV signals is an increasingly important tool in managing a highway surveillance network. Video compression, required to transmit video signals over Standards based Ethernet or SDH networks, can throw away valuable video scene information - required for effective scene analysis software. Software analysis will become even more significant in thefuture as camera counts increase, thus video compression can limit the future use of these tools. Transmission networks are now available which have all the benefits of the standards based networks but with the ability tocarry full bandwidth uncompressed video signals along side Ethernet and traditional low speed data services. For the covering abstract see E134653.