Monitoring of gas pipelines – a civil UAV application

Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 352-360

  Hausamann, Dieter ^a   Zirnig, Werner ^b   Schreier, Gunter ^a   Strobl, Peter ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b EON Kernkraft GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gases; Image processing; Pipelines; System monitoring

Indexed keywords

IMAGE PROCESSING; INFRARED IMAGING; INSPECTION; MONITORING; OPTICAL SENSORS; REMOTE SENSING; REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLES; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ALARM DETECTION; INFRARED REMOTE SENSING SYSTEMS; RADAR SENSOR TECHNOLOGY; SYSTEM MONITORING;

NATURAL GAS PIPELINES;

EID: 25844505434     PISSN: 00022667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00022660510617077     Document Type: Article

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