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Pipeline IMR “It’s all automated based on machine-learning principles. There has been development on the data analysis side with a higher degree of automation to cut down on the time and work involved in data processing and analysis, and it allows us to deliver an effective and accurate service for mapping and inspection.”

Oddbjoern Roedsten

CEO, Ecotone ? aws on silt-covered pipes that would remain invisible to an ROV using reg- ular cameras and lights or UAVs with available sensor arrays. By 2016, the

UHI had evolved for pipeline IMR into SpectraPipe with analysis and archiving software understood to be faster and safer than x-ray or acoustic methods of pipeline maintenance sur- veying. “It’s all automated based on ma- chine-learning principles,” says Eco- tone CEO, Oddbjoern Roedsten, adding that tweaks to the equipment to 2016 have led to today’s ? rst com- mercial uses. “There has been devel- opment on the data analysis side with a higher degree of automation to cut down on the time and work involved in data processing and analysis, and it allows us to deliver an effective and accurate service for mapping and in- spection.”

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