The security pre-warning system of underground pipelines was traditionally designed by electronic sensors, usually suffering from intrinsic flawssuch as too scattered monitoring points and poor anti-interference performance. To overcome these disadvantages, a distributed optical fiber temperature and strain sensing system based on Brillouin Optical Time Domain Reflectometer (BOTDR) is designed and developed for underground pipelines security monitoring. In this paper, the sensing mechanism of temperature and strain sensing is analyzed and a BOTDR experimental scheme is presented. Meanwhile, the kernel software program is developed for signal demodulation. Then, the integrated BOTDR instrument is designed compactly and evaluated by temperature and strain measurement experiments, for respectively simulating pipeline leakage and deformation. The experimental results show that the sensing range of 10.268 km is achieved with a spatial resolution of 1.15 m. The nonlinear error is less than 1% FSS over the temperature and strain change of 30~90°C and 0-15000με.
Access to the requested content is limited to institutions that have purchased or subscribe to SPIE eBooks.
You are receiving this notice because your organization may not have SPIE eBooks access.*
*Shibboleth/Open Athens users─please
sign in
to access your institution's subscriptions.
To obtain this item, you may purchase the complete book in print or electronic format on
SPIE.org.
INSTITUTIONAL Select your institution to access the SPIE Digital Library.
PERSONAL Sign in with your SPIE account to access your personal subscriptions or to use specific features such as save to my library, sign up for alerts, save searches, etc.