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September 30th, 2010
Hyperspectral Touted for Pipeline Inspection

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Differential thermal imaging, quantum cascade lasers and hyperspectral imaging should all be used to monitor natural gas pipelines, in a bid to prevent more incidents like the explosion and fire that devastated San Bruno earlier this month. That’s according to Mundus Group, a company that specializes in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) that it says could carry the required instrumentation to provide remote sensing of potentially leaky gas infrastructure in the US. Read More