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To address the deficiencies in current research, in this study, we formulated a more reliable method for real traffic data acquisition that outperforms the traditional methods in terms of data accuracy and integrity. First, this method implements the scale-invariant feature transform (SIFT) algorithm to detect, describe, and match local features acquired from high-altitude fixed-point aerial photographs. Second, it applies \u201cyou only look once\u201d version 5 (YOLOv5) and deep simple online and real-time tracking (DeepSORT) to detect and track moving vehicles. Next, it leverages the developed Python program to acquire data on vehicle speed and distance (to the marked reference line). The results show that this method achieved over 95% accuracy in speed detection and less than 20 cm tolerance in vehicle trajectory mapping. This method also addresses common problems involving the lack of quality aerial photographic data and accuracy in lane line recognition. 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