CARGO MONITORING METHOD

A method for detecting moving bodies or cargo parts inside a cargo space, including storing 3D data describing each measuring point of any bodies or cargo parts in the cargo space as a first data set and carrying out a further, subsequent three-dimensional measurement and storing the 3D data describing the corresponding measuring points of the bodies or cargo parts in the cargo space as further data sets. A third or fourth step is performed. The third step includes comparing 3D data of individual, spatially corresponding measuring points of the first and the further measurement(s) with each and, if changes in the 3D data are detected, carrying out the fourth step and further steps. The fourth step includes checking the first and the further data set(s) by an algorithm to determine whether subsets of the 3D data contained therein characterize a three-dimensional body or a cargo part.