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The necessity of ensuring safe and reliable energy transportation is the crucial issue for pipeline utilities worldwide. To guarantee the secure operation of the facilities it is necessary to make a deep insight into their state and work out an effective scheme of their maintenance and necessary rehabilitation activity. Taking better-informed decisions concerning the future technological steps requires profound information on the facility itself as well as on the adjacent environment.
Today a lot of pipeline networks worldwide are being expanded, rebuilt, or replaced. These purposes pose a demand for detailed and accurate information about the area topography and other objects within the defined corridor.
The solution to the tasks above is found in OPTEN’s rapid and cost-affordable airborne LiDAR survey. Our time-effective and reliable method of gathering and processing information necessary for pipeline utilities is able to compete with the conventional surveys.
Pipeline utilities rely on geospatial data, which transmits the location information about the pipeline network and the system relation to the surrounding objects for a variety of purposes. Using our airborne LiDAR survey we deliver to the Client rapidly collected and fully processed accurate 3D data in the format of your standard documentation. It contains many important terrain parameters (e.g., slope) and carefully recognized objects so important for the efficient pipeline system maintenance and monitoring.
OPTEN’s airborne LiDAR survey deliverables present a real value in terms of pipeline safety applications. Regularly updated accurate information on the pipeline route lets resist or decrease the major excavation damage and consequences of various natural disasters. OPTEN’s products let pipeline utilities deal with a wide range of critical issues:
- Updating or creating inventory documentation.
- The properly acquired terrain characteristics allow locating steep slopes, which could pose danger to the pipeline structure and its surrounding environment.
- The DTM, which is delivered to our Client, is essential during drainage and watersheds analysis.
- OPTEN’s laser survey data can become the basis for defining potential risk spots or estimating the possible risk extent posed by vegetation, internal corrosion or other factors.
- Terrain stability analysis, relevant for the secure facility operation.
- Leak detection issues management, in particular the leaking damage amount assessment, is correspondent to the terrain characteristics, which are obtained with LiDAR survey data.
- Cadastre registration of objects belonging to the pipeline network.
Pipeline network design activities also benefit from our precise three-dimensional survey data. Bringing into the spotlight the type of the terrain the detailed information lets assessing the feasibility of new routes construction in particular areas.
The airborne LiDAR survey data is also used when an existing route is rebuilt or extended. Possessing precise Digital Terrain Model and taking into account the up-to-date terrain characteristics designers choose the safe routes for pipeline placing.
Our laser survey data is usually combined with the acquired digital photography and video, which add value to the laser survey products.
Please contact us to get more information on the subject or discuss the cooperation opportunities.