Key Activities

The foundation of the project is a detailed review of the pipeline operator requirements and the currently available remote sensing technologies that could meet these. From these reviews a best practice approach will be evolved, identifying suitable approaches that could be considered now and those that will be available in the foreseeable future.

To examine these futuristic approaches, several of the partners will provide state-of-the-art monitoring equipment that will be flown over pipeline test sites to assess the performance of new techniques and the processing of multi-sensor data sets.

Results will be compared with imagery collected from current satellite instrumentation to enable the technology limits of the various approaches to be compared. The pipeline operator companies will provide access to their pipeline right-of-ways and will develop models for the risk and cost benefits of the various approaches considered.

The requirements for the structure of a computer based management system that will collect the information, undertake the processing of the data and disseminate it to the end user pipeline operators will be established and a pilot demonstration system developed.