Monitoring of Gas Transmission Pipelines – a Customer Driven Civil Uav Application
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It is in the interest of any gas company to maintain the value of its pipelines and to protect them effectively against damage caused by third parties. As a result of global progress in high-resolution remote sensing and image processing technology, it is now possible to design natural gas pipeline monitoring systems with remote sensors and context-oriented image processing software. Recent developments in UAV technology show their suitability as platforms for such customer driven missions [1,2]. Two different scenarios for a UAV based gas pipeline monitoring system will be discussed.
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