System and method for providing vehicle awareness

The invention relates to a system and method for providing vehicle awareness. Localization involves in-vehicle calculation of voxel signatures by hashing weighted voxel data obtained from a machine vision system, and comparison of the calculated signatures to cached data within a signature localization table containing previously known voxel signatures and associated geospatial locations. A signature localization table is formed by a proxy cluster calculating signatures while traversing an environment and reporting the calculated signatures and associated geospatial locations to a central server. Once the vehicle is positioned, it is incorporated into a semantic mapping. The vehicle cluster characterizes assets encountered when traversing the local environment. The asset characterization results may be compared to known assets within a locally cached semantic map. Omission and misremembering differences between observed assets and asset characterization results and local map caches may be reported to a centra