Transport Infrastructure Surveillance and Monitoring by Electromagnetic Sensing: The ISTIMES Project

Sensors

Monica Proto⁸  Massimo Bavusi⁸  Romeo Bernini⁷  Lorenzo Bigagli⁸  Marie Bost¹¹  Frຝrèric. Bourquin¹¹  Louis-Marie Cottineau¹¹  Vincenzo Cuomo⁸  Pietro Della Vecchia²  Mauro Dolce⁹  Jean Dumoulin¹¹  Lev Eppelbaum¹²  Gianfranco Fornaro⁷  Mats Gustafsson³  Johannes Hugenschmidt¹  Peter Kaspersen¹⁰  Hyunwook Kim¹  Vincenzo Lapenna⁸  Mario Leggio^5,8  Antonio Loperte⁸  Paolo Mazzetti⁸  Claudio Moroni^4,8  Stefano Nativi⁸  Sven Nordebo^6,8  Fabrizio Pacini^5,8  Angelo Palombo⁸  Simone Pascucci⁸  Angela Perrone⁸  Stefano Pignatti⁸  Felice Carlo Ponzo⁹  Enzo Rizzo⁸  Francesco Soldovieri⁷ 

[1] Eidgenoessische Materialpruefungs-und Forschungsanstalt (EMPA), Duebendorf, Switzerland; E-Mails:;Territorial Data Elaboration (TDE), Bucaresti, Romania, E-Mail:;Lund University (ULUND), Lund, Sweden; E-Mail:;Dipartimento della Protezione Civile (DPC), Roma, Italy; E-Mails:;Elsag Datamat (ED), Genova (GE), Italy; E-Mails:;Linnaeus University, Växjö, Sweden; E-Mail:;Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto per il Rilevamento Elettromagnetico dell’Ambiente (IREA), Naples, Italy; E-Mails:;Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Metodologie per l’Analisi Ambientale (IMAA), Tito Scalo (PZ), Italy; E-Mails:;Tecnologie per l’Osservazione della Terra e dei Rischi Naturali (TeRN) Consortium, Tito Scalo (PZ), Italy;Norsk Elektro Optikk (NEO), Lorenskog, Norway; E-Mail:;Laboratoire Central des Ponts et Chaussées (LCPC), Paris, France ; E-Mails:;Department of Geophysics and Planetary Sciences, Tel Aviv University (TAU), Tel Aviv, Israel; E-Mail:

关键词: electromagnetic sensing techniques;    system architecture;    transport infrastructure non invasive monitoring;   

DOI  :  10.3390/s101210620

来源: mdpi

【 摘 要 】

The ISTIMES project, funded by the European Commission in the frame of a joint Call “ICT and Security” of the Seventh Framework Programme, is presented and preliminary research results are discussed. The main objective of the ISTIMES project is to design, assess and promote an Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)-based system, exploiting distributed and local sensors, for non-destructive electromagnetic monitoring of critical transport infrastructures. The integration of electromagnetic technologies with new ICT information and telecommunications systems enables remotely controlled monitoring and surveillance and real time data imaging of the critical transport infrastructures. The project exploits different non-invasive imaging technologies based on electromagnetic sensing (optic fiber sensors, Synthetic Aperture Radar satellite platform based, hyperspectral spectroscopy, Infrared thermography, Ground Penetrating Radar-, low-frequency geophysical techniques, Ground based systems for displacement monitoring). In this paper, we show the preliminary results arising from the GPR and infrared thermographic measurements carried out on the Musmeci bridge in Potenza, located in a highly seismic area of the Apennine chain (Southern Italy) and representing one of the test beds of the project.

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