Underground Sensing: Monitoring and Hazard Detection for Environment and Infrastructure

Underground Sensing: Monitoring and Hazard Detection for Environment and Infrastructure brings the target audience the technical and practical knowledge of existing technologies of subsurface sensing and monitoring based on a classification of their functionality. In addition, the book introduces emerging technologies and applications of sensing for environmental and geo-hazards in subsurface - focusing on sensing platforms that can enable fully distributed global measurements. Finally, users will find a comprehensive exploration of the future of underground sensing that can meet demands for preemptive and sustainable response to underground hazards.

New concepts and paradigms based on passively powered and/or on-demand activated, embeddable sensor platforms are presented to bridge the gap between real-time monitoring and global measurements.

Presents a one-stop-shop reference for underground sensing and monitoring needs that saves valuable research timeProvides application cases for all technologies that are covered and described in detailIncludes full, four color images of equipment and applicationsDesigned to cover a wide variety of underground sensors, from agriculture to geohazards

1. Overview of applied underground sensing and monitoring technologies 2. Acoustic, optical and electromagnetic sensing and monitoring 3. Geotechnical underground sensing and monitoring 4. Environmental underground sensing and monitoring 5. Wireless underground sensor networks 6. Fiber-optic underground sensor networks 7. Advances and challenges in underground sensing 8. Underground Sensing Strategies for the health assessment of buried pipelines 9. Outlook: advanced hybrid sensing for pre-emptive response