Gas
Transmission and Supply Technologies
Three-Dimensional Underground Pipeline Visualization
Technology for High-Level Security
Energy Technology Laboratories
Outline
To contribute to safety and reduction of pipeline construction cost, we are developing a three-dimensional visualization technology which makes underground pipelines, pipelines inside concrete buildings, or any other buried objects visible and easy to locate precisely.
Visualized three-dimensional image of buried pipelines.
Ground-penetrating radar.
Characteristic
- The locations of objects buried at various depths can be easily and three- dimensionally detected.
- High-speed migration processing improves the horizontal resolution.
- The survey data promptly obtained by both arbitrary and parallel scannings can be visualized three-dimensionally.
Future Tasks
We will conduct tests for evaluation and improvement to make the technology usable at all sites.
Technical Term
Migration processing: It is a technique to sharpen the radar beam of the ground- penetrating radar using software to improve the resolutions which gives clear images of underground objects.
