Remote Detection of Methane by Infrared Spectrometry for Airborne Pipeline Surveillance: First Results of Ground-Based Measurements

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5235, Issue , 2004, Pages 435-446

  Harig, Roland ^a   Matz, Gerhard ^a   Rusch, Peter ^a   Gerhard, Jörn Hinnrich ^a   Schäfer, Klaus ^b   Jahn, Carsten ^b   Schwengler, Peter ^c   Beil, Andreas ^d  

^a HAMBURG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c Ruhrgas Aktiengesellschaft   (Germany)

^d BRUKER DALTONIK GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

FTIR; Imaging spectrometry; Methane; Passive; Passive infrared spectrometry; Pipeline surveillance; Remote sensing; Scanning imaging FTIR spectrometer

Indexed keywords

IMAGING SPECTROMETRY; PASSIVE; PASSIVE INFRARED SPECTROMETRY; PIPELINE SURVEILLANCE; SCANNING IMAGING FTIR SPECTROMETERS;

ALGORITHMS; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; INFRARED SPECTROMETERS; METHANE; NATURAL GAS PIPELINES; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; SENSORS;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 1942516422     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.516777     Document Type: Conference Paper

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