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Optical flow-based detection of gas leaks from pipelines using multibeam water column images

Optical flow-based detection of gas leaks from pipelines using multibeam water column images
Optical flow-based detection of gas leaks from pipelines using multibeam water column images
In recent years, most multibeam echo sounders (MBESs) have been able to collect water column image (WCI) data while performing seabed topography measurements, providing effective data sources for gas-leakage detection. However, there can be systematic (e.g., sidelobe interference) or natural disturbances in the images, which may introduce challenges for automatic detection of gas leaks. In this paper, we design two data-processing schemes to estimate motion velocities based on the Farneback optical flow principle according to types of WCIs, including time-angle and depth-across track images. Moreover, by combining the estimated motion velocities with the amplitudes of the image pixels, several decision thresholds are used to eliminate interferences, such as the seabed, non-gas backscatters in the water column, etc. To verify the effectiveness of the proposed method, we simulated the scenarios of pipeline leakage in a pool and the Songhua Lake, Jilin Province, China, and used a HT300 PA MBES (it was developed by Harbin Engineering University and its operating frequency is 300 kHz) to collect acoustic data in static and dynamic conditions. The results show that the proposed method can automatically detect underwater leaking gases, and both data-processing schemes have similar detection performance.
automatic detection, gas emissions, multibeam echo sounder, optical flow, water column image
2072-4292
119-129
Xu, Chao
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Wu, Mingxing
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Zhou, Tian
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Xu, Chao, Wu, Mingxing, Zhou, Tian, Li, Jianghui, Du, Weidong, Zhang, Wanyuan and White, Paul (2020) Optical flow-based detection of gas leaks from pipelines using multibeam water column images. Remote Sensing, 12 (1), 119-129, [119]. (doi:10.3390/rs12010119).

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Abstract

In recent years, most multibeam echo sounders (MBESs) have been able to collect water column image (WCI) data while performing seabed topography measurements, providing effective data sources for gas-leakage detection. However, there can be systematic (e.g., sidelobe interference) or natural disturbances in the images, which may introduce challenges for automatic detection of gas leaks. In this paper, we design two data-processing schemes to estimate motion velocities based on the Farneback optical flow principle according to types of WCIs, including time-angle and depth-across track images. Moreover, by combining the estimated motion velocities with the amplitudes of the image pixels, several decision thresholds are used to eliminate interferences, such as the seabed, non-gas backscatters in the water column, etc. To verify the effectiveness of the proposed method, we simulated the scenarios of pipeline leakage in a pool and the Songhua Lake, Jilin Province, China, and used a HT300 PA MBES (it was developed by Harbin Engineering University and its operating frequency is 300 kHz) to collect acoustic data in static and dynamic conditions. The results show that the proposed method can automatically detect underwater leaking gases, and both data-processing schemes have similar detection performance.

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Accepted/In Press date: 30 December 2019
Published date: 1 January 2020
Additional Information: Funding Information: Funding: This research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant numbers U1709203, 41606115 and 41876100), the National Science and Technology Major Project of China (grant number 2016ZX05057005), the National Key R&D Program of China (grant number 2016YFC1402303), and financial assistance from the Postdoctoral Scientific Research Developmental Fund of Heilongjiang (grant number LBH-Q18042). The work of Jianghui Li and Paul R. White was partly supported by the European Union Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement number 654462 (STEMM-CCS). Publisher Copyright: © 2020 by the authors.
Keywords: automatic detection, gas emissions, multibeam echo sounder, optical flow, water column image

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Local EPrints ID: 441816
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/441816
ISSN: 2072-4292
PURE UUID: 1d3bf4cd-4927-4b86-b63a-22e0e0b97b61
ORCID for Jianghui Li: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-2956-5940
ORCID for Paul White: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-4787-8713

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Author: Chao Xu
Author: Mingxing Wu
Author: Tian Zhou
Author: Jianghui Li ORCID iD
Author: Weidong Du
Author: Wanyuan Zhang
Author: Paul White ORCID iD

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