Having a clear pipeline Right-of-Way (ROW) is important. Intrusions can cause damage to infrastructure, interfere with crew maintenance efforts, and cause disruptions to nearby landowners and the public at large. Unfortunately, current methods for ROW monitoring aren’t giving pipeline operators the data they need to identify potential problems before they become critical maintenance or environmental issues. As a result, they’re making reactive decisions.
Taking a proactive approach to pipeline integrity allows you to better understand the issues occurring on your right-of-way, prevent critical issues, and provide maintenance teams with complete and accurate information.
Shifting from reactive to proactive maintenance requires predictive analytics.
Here are common intrusions in a right-of-way and how predictive analytics can help address them:
Regularly scheduled inspections, consistent high-resolution imagery, and high-quality data – these are the cornerstones of an effective, proactive ROW monitoring operation and the path to unlocking the full value of predictive analytics.
It starts with building a baseline set of data with an initial inspection. By following-up with subsequent inspections on a routine basis, you can gather the necessary datasets you need to track changes on your ROW.
To perform this kind of analysis, you need to be working with consistent and highly-precise imagery that doesn’t radically deviate from one inspection to the next.
An automated system can effectively analyze the subtle changes between new and historical data, notifying you of trends and potential problems.
Improving the maintenance of your right-of-way requires a shift from reactive to proactive management. Through regularly scheduled aerial inspections, consistent high-resolution imagery, and high-quality data – you can unlock the predictive analytics that drive this paradigm shift. Aerial systems are ideal for meeting these requirements, which will empower you to better identify and address subtle anomalies and progressing issues along your ROW.
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