Alaa Al Hawari and Mohammad Khader and Tarek Zayed and Osama Moselhi
NonDestructive VisualStatistical Approach to Detect Leaks in Water Mains
230 - 234
2015
9
3
International Journal of Environmental and Ecological Engineering
https://publications.waset.org/pdf/10000792
https://publications.waset.org/vol/99
World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology
In this paper, an effective nondestructive, noninvasive
approach for leak detection was proposed. The process relies
on analyzing thermal images collected by an IR viewer device that
captures thermograms. In this study a statistical analysis of the
collected thermal images of the ground surface along the expected
leak location followed by a visual inspection of the thermograms
was performed in order to locate the leak. In order to verify the
applicability of the proposed approach the predicted leak location
from the developed approach was compared with the real leak
location. The results showed that the expected leak location was
successfully identified with an accuracy of more than 95.
Open Science Index 99, 2015