Extended distance fiber optic monitoring for pipeline leak and ground movement detection

Proceedings of the Biennial International Pipeline Conference, IPC

Volumn 1, Issue , 2009, Pages 689-697

  Ravet, Fabien ^a   Briffod, Fabien ^a   Niklès, Marc ^a  

^a Omnisens SA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Asset integrity monitoring; Brillouin optical time domain analyser; Distributed fiber optic sensor; Distributed strain and temperature sensor; Ground movement detection; Intrusion detection; Leakage detection; Long range distributed sensing

Indexed keywords

ASSET INTEGRITY MONITORING; BRILLOUIN OPTICAL TIME DOMAIN ANALYSER; DISTRIBUTED FIBER OPTIC SENSOR; DISTRIBUTED STRAIN AND TEMPERATURE SENSOR; GROUND MOVEMENT DETECTION; LEAKAGE DETECTION; LONG RANGE DISTRIBUTED SENSING;

ANCHORAGES (FOUNDATIONS); FIBER OPTICS; FIBERS; INTRUSION DETECTION; MONITORING; OPTICAL MATERIALS; PIPELINES; TEMPERATURE SENSORS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

FIBER OPTIC SENSORS;

EID: 70350012049     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/IPC2008-64521     Document Type: Conference Paper

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