DocumentCode
1444884
Title
Aerial video inspection of overhead power lines
Author
Whitworth, C.C. ; Duller, A.W.G. ; Jones, D.I. ; Earp, G.K.
Author_Institution
Technol. Centre, DERA, Winfrith, UK
Volume
15
Issue
1
fYear
2001
fDate
2/1/2001 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
25
Lastpage
32
Abstract
Electricity companies routinely inspect their overhead lines by helicopter. The work described here aims to enhance the inspection process by using video surveillance techniques to capture and store visual information for easy retrieval as a basis for maintenance planning. The article considers the problem of how to acquire and smoothly track known visual features of the network using a helicopter-mounted camera.
Keywords
helicopters; inspection; maintenance engineering; power overhead lines; surveillance; television applications; aerial video inspection; electricity companies; helicopter; helicopter-mounted camera; image feature extraction; maintenance planning; overhead power lines; video surveillance techniques; visual information capture; visual information storage;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Power Engineering Journal
Publisher
iet
ISSN
0950-3366
Type
jour
DOI
10.1049/pe:20010103
Filename
905730
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