Next Generation Monitoring of Critical Welsh Infrastructure: Creating a Starting Point for Integrating Remote Monitoring Data

Despite the frequent use of geophysics and remote sensing for solving geo-environmental issues, there is no existing system that applies these to monitoring infrastructure in Wales. Taking reservoirs as a particular focus, many of these were built in the Victorian Era, and suffer from problems like leaks that affect the safety of the structure. Here, self-potential is combined with an automated logger, and bespoke software, to test the effectiveness of a more modern monitoring solution for reservoirs. Data was collected over a long period for a site in North Wales. This was then used to test post-processing methods for isolating the target signal of a leak in the structure. The data showing the leak that was collected by the automated system was confirmed by the results of manual processing. As well as a viable signal from the field equipment, the software acting as the back-end was also developed from the initial plan by the experience of the case study.

Name dc:type.qualificationname

Master's Thesis

Level dc:type.qualificationlevel

Student thesis

Year dc:date.issued

2024

Author dc:creator

• Farnham, Nicholas

Advisors dc:contributor.advisor

• Skilling, Ian
• Pirrie, Duncan
• Powell, Gareth

Language dc:language

eng

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oai:pure.atira.dk:studenttheses/9622924e-5d7f-4a17-b807-114f8400eeaf

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oai:pure.atira.dk:studenttheses/9622924e-5d7f-4a17-b807-114f8400eeaf