Patent ID: 8184161

Claim:
A method for acquiring surveillance data corresponding to a region of interest comprising: installing a plurality of vehicle-mounted recording system on a plurality of vehicles; capturing visual data of exterior perimeters of the vehicles having vehicle-mounted recording systems when the vehicles are in motion wherein the visual data is marked with location data and time data; storing the visual data, the location data, and the time data so that each portion of the visual data is locatable by at least one of a time of video data capture and a location of video data capture; transmitting a polling request comprising information corresponding to the region of interest; and receiving a reply transmission to the polling request from at least one of the vehicle-mounted recording systems having recorded data corresponding to the polling request, the reply transmission to the polling request comprising information identifying said vehicle-mounted recording system, wherein receiving a reply transmission further comprises: acquiring first data from a first vehicle recording system, the first data comprising first visual data of exterior perimeter of a first vehicle; acquiring second data from a second vehicle recording source, said second data comprising second video data of exterior perimeter of a second vehicle; and synchronizing said first data and said second data in conformity with a first time data and a second time data; and generating a viewable reproduction of an event recorded by the first vehicle recording system and the second vehicle recording system.