Pipeline encroachment monitoring using polarimetric SAR imagery

Abstract

Mechanical damage incurred from unauthorized third party activities remains a leading cause of onshore oil and gas pipeline failure, indicating the need for effective strategies to monitor encroachment over extensive sections of pipeline right-of-way (ROW). In this paper, the use of polarimetric SAR imagery (as will be available from RADARSAT-2) for pipeline monitoring of encroachment activities is explored. Experimental data were acquired of a test area near the shores of Lake Simcoe (north of Toronto, Ontario) in September 2001 by the C-SAR on board the Convair-580. The vehicle deployments and ground truthing were conducted by C-CORE with processing from signal data (including calibration) and analysis performed at the Canada Centre for Remote Sensing

Original document

The different versions of the original document can be found in:

• http://dx.doi.org/10.4095/220093

• http://xplorestaging.ieee.org/ielx5/9436/29944/01368946.pdf?arnumber=1368946,

http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/igarss.2004.1368946

• https://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/igarss/igarss2004.html#LukowskiPYRYH04,

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1368946,

https://academic.microsoft.com/#/detail/2154963332

DOIS: 10.1109/igarss.2004.1368946 10.4095/220093