Abstract: A control system and method for vehicles (11, 12) and parking spaces for outdoor parking lots (10), comprising: a reader (1) of identification labels for a vehicle (11) at the time of entry to an outdoor parking lot (10), a server (31) for obtaining a global image of the parking lot (10) and detecting at least one parking space in the image, multiple overhead cameras (2) covering at least one area (101, 102, 103, 104) of the parking lot (10) to capture at least one image of the vehicle (11) from the time of entry to a time of parking of the vehicle (11) in a parking space or a time of exit of the vehicle (11) from the parking lot (10); sending each captured image to the server (31) which gathers all the images in order to obtain the global image of the parking lot (10) and track the vehicle (11) in said image; a database (32) linked to the server (31) for storing each image of the vehicle (11) in association with its identification label.