摘要: |
The primary goal of the proposed project is to advance unmanned aerial system (UAS or drone) mounted remote sensing technologies for (1) identifying right of way (ROW) integrity threats and for (2) detecting natural gas leaks under operational conditions within natural gas transmission and distribution pipeline systems across urban to rural sites. Project results will strengthen industry consensus on the value of newly developed leak detection sensors, integrity threat monitoring methods, unmanned aerial monitoring platforms, and survey methods using multiple sensors. Deliverables will include a validation test framework for real-world, operational drone mounted technologies, field-validated drone-mounted integrity threat monitoring and methane detection instruments, and a probabilistic understanding of instrument performance under real-world field scenarios.
Operations Technology Development, NFP (OTD) will work with technology end users and a vendor to develop an operational validation test framework focused on operating field sites within the pipeline network, use a single technology vendor to evaluate the framework, and model sensor performance in a manner that can be fed into higher level risk models. |