At the present time, water and sewer pipe networks are predominantly inspected manually.
In the near future, smart cities will perform intelligent autonomous monitoring of buried pipe …

Buried pipelines are an essential component of the urban infrastructure of modern cities.
Traditional buried pipes are mainly made of metal materials. With the development of …

Ground-penetrating radar (GPR) has been widely used as a nondestructive tool for the
investigation of the subsurface, but it is challenging to automatically process the generated …

Maintaining and upgrading underground pipelines are major undertakings in urban
operations, where accurately locating buried pipelines has long been an issue. In this …

With the rapid expansion of urban areas and the increasing use of electricity, the need for
locating buried cables is becoming urgent. In this article, a novel method to locate …

Urban infrastructure assets (eg roads, water pipes) perform critical functions to the health
and well-being of society. Although it has been widely recognised that different infrastructure …

Resilience engineering relates to the ability of a system to anticipate, prepare, and respond
to predicted and unpredicted disruptions. It necessitates the use of monitoring and object …

Accurately identifying the location and depth of buried utility assets became a considerable
challenge in the construction industry, for which accidental strikes can cause important …

There is a need to map underground pipelines due to nonavailable existing pipeline maps
caused by poor management of statutory records and insufficient updating of documentation …

In this paper, an efficient plastic pipe detecting model is proposed, which combines the
ground penetrating radar (GPR) and the electric field method. The model consists of the …