Distributed Fibre Optic Sensing Technologies and Applications
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Optical Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 March 2025 | Viewed by 20401
Special Issue Editors
Interests: distributed acoustic sensing; acoustic signal detection and classification; intelligent transportation systems; fibre optic sensors; object detection and tracking
Interests: distributed fibre optics sensing; laser optics
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Originating from the oil and gas industry, all variations of distributed fibre optic sensing, including acoustic sensing (FOAS), temperature sensing (DTS) and strain sensing (DSS), have made steady progress into new domains of long-range sensing applications. Optical interrogator technology, the basis for the distributed fibre optic sensing technologies, has advanced tremendously in recent years. Machine learning is widely considered a gamechanger for the detection and classification of events of interest in the complex FOAS signal. Implementation of real time processing and raw data storage is still challenging, as it must cope with the extremely high amounts of data produced by fibre optic sensing systems.
This Special Issue therefore aims to collect original research and review articles on recent advances, technologies, solutions, applications, and new challenges in the field of distributed fibre optic sensing.
Dr. Martin Litzenberger
Dr. Gaetan Calbris
Dr. Bernd Drapp
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- specialised fibre optic cables, sensing fibres
- interrogator instrumentation design
- amplification and range extension techniques for interrogator systems
- raw optical signal processing
- object and event detection and classification in FOS signals, including, but not limited to, machine learning techniques
- real time parallel processing and signal compression techniques for FOS
- railway applications
- road traffic monitoring applications
- oil and gas applications, including pipeline monitoring
- geology applications
- border and perimeter surveillance
- cable monitoring, including monitoring of power line interconnections
- structural health monitoring
- long terminal monitoring
- power cable or bus duct temperature monitoring
- monitoring of offshore windfarms and connections
- long term experience or new applications using FOS-based fire detection solutions (e.g., metro tunnels, traffic tunnels, vessels, etc.)
- bridge monitoring and condition-based maintenance
- monitoring of landslides
- dike and dam monitoring
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