Small unmanned airborne systems to support oil and gas pipeline monitoring and mapping

Arabian Journal of Geosciences

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2017, Pages

  Gómez, Cristina ^a,b,c   Green, David R ^b,c  

^a INIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^c UAV UAS Centre for Environmental Monitoring and Mapping (UCEMM)   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Monitoring; Oil and gas pipeline; Regulations; Safety; Unmanned aerial vehicle

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE SURVEY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GAS PIPELINE; MAPPING METHOD; OIL PIPELINE; REGULATORY APPROACH; SAFETY; UNMANNED VEHICLE;

EID: 85018986469     PISSN: 18667511     EISSN: 18667538     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12517-017-2989-x     Document Type: Article

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