Low Power Lines Inspection by UAV with Lidar Use Case Session - Mike Tully President & CEO, Aerial Services Inc

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1. Use Case: Low Power Lines Inspection by UAV with Lidar Innovative UAS Solutions Can Make a Big Impact Mike Tully President & CEO AerialServicesInc.com Cedar Falls, Iowa
2. Mid South Synergy (Utility Provider) End User McCord Engineering Engineering & UAS Provider Aerial Services, Inc UAS & Lidar Solutions Provider Dr. Comfort, Texas Tom Jackson, Texas Mike Tully, Iowa
3. Vegetation Crisis • 2009-2010: Drought • 2011: Trees Begin Dying • 2012: Trees Begin Falling • >50,000 trees cut outside the right-of-way since 2012 • >850 vegetation service tickets in 2012 • <50 vegetation service tickets today 0 200 400 600 800 1,000 1,200 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 Outages
4. $0.00 $0.20 $0.40 $0.60 $0.80 $1.00 $1.20 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 • $450/hour (2 man crew with OT) • Not included: • Loss of energy revenue • Material Replacement Costs • Member Satisfaction – ACSI Rating (How Customers Perceive the Cooperative) millions Estimated Vegetation Outage Labor
5. More than 90% of all vegetation related outages occur from vegetation outside the right-of-way.
6. McCord Engineering VTOL Quad-Copter 4K Video Camera Hi-Res Still Camera Lidar FLIR Infrared NDVI Camera
7. Video NDVI Thermal Oblique Lidar
8. Tree Segmentation With Valuable Attributes Tree Locations Tree Heights Crown Diameter Crown Area Crown Volume
9. Danger Tree Trees with potential to fall on powerlines. Hazard Tree Clearance Violation Overhang Vegetation located inside the ROW, not a clearance violation and overhanging the ROW limits. Vegetation Analysis Vegetation inside required clearance set by the client. Stressed, dying or dead Danger Trees. Prioritized based on level of danger.
10. NDVI Normalized Difference Vegetation Index
11. NDVI + LiDAR NDVI only NDVI colored LiDAR
12. Lidar Classification Clearance Violations Falling Tree (pink), Overhand (gray) Healthy (cyan) Stressed (yellow) Unhealthy-Dead (Red) Stressed (brown) Dead (orange)
13. UAS Data Processing UAV Flight Crunch Data Veg. Analysis Deliverables
14. Classified “Areas” in GIS
15. Benefits of Intelligent Vegetation Management Improved Safety Improved Reliability More Economical Multiuse Data Prioritize work orders based on hazard Historical data archive Storm Risk Planning Streamlined Workflow
16. More Applications • Engineering Data Collection • Pipeline Surveys • InfraStructure Inspections • NERC Compliance • Emergency Management • Substation Surveys • System Mapping
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