As power grids have grown rapidly in recent years, the number of long-distance transmission lines has also steadily increased.
Continuous monitoring is required to perform daily power line maintenance, asset inventory and electrical incident resolution.
Currently, most daily inspections are still performed by electrical engineers using time-consuming ground observation methods.
More automated and advanced inspection methods have become necessary, leading to the rapid adoption of airborne LiDAR in this domain.
The development level reached by LiDAR technology allows it to be used in power line monitoring applications. Based on the captured aerial point cloud data and appropriate software processing, the power line is easily extracted and generated as a 3D digital model.
In addition, the LiDAR solution also offers rapid optimization and asset inventory capabilities required by the high scalability of the power line. LiDAR sensors support multiple echoes to capture the coordinates of the power line, electrical facilities, vegetation and ground objects in a single scan to significantly improve the inspection efficiency.
Read the case study to see how the AlphaAir 450 LiDAR is used in powerline inspection and the main benefits a LiDAR solution can bring to your work.
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