Airborne Damage Assessment Tool (AirDAT)
Automated Damage Assessment and Rapid Post-storm Recovery
using LiDAR and Machine Learning
2024 DISTRIBUTECH International® Conference Session
While many external factors influence resiliency, weather remains the single greatest threat to the electric power grid. When damage occurs, it is very time-consuming and costly to identify due to the vastness of T&D infrastructure and continued reliance on human teams to “walk the line” and physically inspect assets. In collaboration with Entergy and other utilities, we have developed a total solution to the problem of post-storm recovery that is currently being tested and deployed to hurricane-prone service territories in the southern United States. By leveraging flight vehicles, light detection and ranging (LiDAR) sensors, and machine learning, the time of post-storm damage assessment is reduced from days and weeks to hours. The presentation will offer an overview of the solution, how it works, its engineering, and a discussion of results to date.
*** During the conference you can find us at booth #3863 with our licensing partner Actalent Services.
Supplementary materials may be downloaded via the links below:
Teledyne Geoweek 2024 Presentation
In the news:
10/17/24: Lockhart man helping reduce outages following natural disasters
9/13/24: Specialized equipment bolstering Entergy’s Louisiana restoration following Hurricane Francine
Last Updated 10/16/24.
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