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Combining a Crop Growth Model With CNN for Underground Natural Gas Leakage Detection Using Hyperspectral Imagery

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Natural gas leakage occurs frequently due to aging pipes and other factors, but is challenging to detect. In this article, a new, robust method for nondestructive natural gas microleakage detection… Click to show full abstract

Natural gas leakage occurs frequently due to aging pipes and other factors, but is challenging to detect. In this article, a new, robust method for nondestructive natural gas microleakage detection was proposed. It combines a crop growth model with a convolutional neural network (CNN) approach to quantitatively detect underground natural gas leakage using unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) hyperspectral imagery. The environmental stress on wheat was used as an indicator to reflect the intensity of natural gas leakage. First, a crop growth model (simple algorithm for yield, SAFY) was used to simulate the growth of wheat, and the environmental stress factor in the model was used to construct the natural gas stress index (Kgs). Subsequently, CNN models were used to estimate the Kgs value with a hyperspectral image as the input. Finally, the CNN estimated Kgs was used to detect the natural gas leakage in the study area. Results showed that the SAFY model Kgs value could effectively identify natural gas leakage, with statistically significant differences (p-value < 0.05) among three leakage levels. Furthermore, compared to a single spectral index, Kgs had superior robustness throughout the wheat growth period. The CNN-1D model with InceptionV2 architecture exhibited the best accuracy in estimating Kgs, with a robust nRMSE of 6.9%. Overall, the combined CNN and SAFY models could accurately detect natural gas leakage, and this approach is more robust than traditional spectral index-based methods. This article provides a new method for nondestructive detecting of natural gas microleakage.

Keywords: gas; natural gas; gas leakage; sub; italic italic

Journal Title: IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
Year Published: 2022

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