Remote or Standoff Sensing Technologies for Infrastructure Monitoring
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Remote Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 October 2022) | Viewed by 4371
Special Issue Editor
Interests: sensors; millimeter waves; remote sensing; non-destructive evaluation
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Dear Colleagues,
We invite papers for a Special Issue on remote inspection and monitoring of infrastructure for assuring its safety, health, and structural integrity. Aging infrastructure worldwide poses a serious public safety issue and may cause heavy collateral damage if not frequently inspected and maintained. Major parts of infrastructure that require immediate attention are roadways, railways, waterways, bridge decks, dams, pipelines, electrical grids, and forestry.
The current practice of manual inspection, contact sensing, in situ or point sensing, and nondestructive testing approaches are inadequate and expensive due to their vastness and labor-intensive nature. Remote and spatial monitoring technique are therefore required for assuring safety and efficient management. The requirements for sensing and measurements are application specific and may consist of internal variables such as displacements, bending, vibration, effluents, leaks, heat, noise, cracks, voids, and external variables such as quakes, storms, fire, and sabotage. Relevant techniques may include electromagnetic, acoustic, photo-acoustic, microwave, optical, laser, geographical information system, global navigation satellite system, sensor network, big data, machine learning, and probabilistic risk assessment techniques. Successful remote monitoring techniques for these applications would reap enormous benefits in the rapid detection of catastrophic defects, prediction of failure probabilities, efficient infrastructure management, cost efficiency, and public safety.
Papers dealing with
- scoping study;
- ground-based, air-borne, and space-borne system concepts;
- geospatial imaging techniques;
- laser/radar sensing;
- sensor network and data fusion;
- modelling and design of sensor and imaging systems;
- simulation and experimental results;
- prototyping of sensor platforms;
- proof-of-principle testing;
- field testing;
- and probabilistic risk assessments
are encouraged for the various applications described above. Papers may focus on the remote measurement of observables and signatures related to structural variables, as they would serve as fast search and cuing techniques for further focused investigation. The definition of remote sensing for this purpose can include standoff sensing, networked sensing with central point or cloud computing, and air- and space-borne systems.
Dr. Nachappa Gopalsami
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- infrastructure
- structural health monitoring
- remote sensing
- wide area monitoring
- geospatial sensing
- satellite imaging
- hyperspectral techniques
- sensor networks
- nondestructive inspection techniques
- machine learning
- probabilistic risk assessments
