Method and device for positioning and tracking target

The embodiment of the invention discloses a method and a device for positioning and tracking a target. The method comprises the following steps: firstly, ground equipment receives the spatial position information of a tracking device and the video information containing a tracking target sent by the tracking device; secondly, the ground equipment determines the geographic information of the tracking target according to the area information and the video information. According to the technical scheme of the invention, the tracking target can be remotely positioned and tracked without any GPS positioning module installed on the tracking target. During the positioning and tracking process of the target, the clear image information of the target can be obtained at the same time. 本发明实施例公开了种目标定位追踪方法和装置，该方法包括：地面设备接收追踪设备发送的所述追踪设备的空间位置信息以及包含追踪目标的视频信息；所述地面设备依据所述空间位置信息和GIS数据库确定所述追踪目标所在的区域信息；所述地面设备依据所述区域信息和所述视频信息确定所述追踪目标的地理信息。本方案在目标物体上无需安装GPS定位模块即可实现对目标物体的远距离定位追踪，在定位追踪的同时还可得到目标物体的清晰的图像信息。