Introduction
LiPowerline offers a complete and intuitive solution for power line inspection and analysis from LiDAR point clouds. It includes a powerful toolset for automatically classifying power lines, towers and vegetation and effectively detecting a range of user-defined danger points such as vegetation overgrowth and tree fall.
LiPowerline is able to segment individual sections of the corridor based on the location of each power tower and process all segments simultaneously.
After segmenting the corridor, LiPowerline utilizes our proprietary machine learning algorithms to automatically classify power lines and towers. The conditional classification algorithm then allows for the ground point, building and noise classification. Users are also given the option to manually edit the automatic classification results.
LiPowerline also has the ability to vectorize insulators and power lines, the results of which, can then be used to simulate and predict how environmental variabilities, such as strong wind, ice coverage and high temperatures, may affect the safety of electricity transmission.
Performing individual tree segmentation will allow users to simulate tree future growth and extract both identified and potential danger points.
Crucial risk and analysis information is then automatically generated as an assessment report, allowing for a precise understanding of the asset.
Specifically, LiPowerline has the following modules:
Data Management: The module provides management tools for point cloud and raster data, which include format conversion, point cloud de-noising, normalization, raster band calculation and so on.
Statistics: Based on the number, density and elevation of LiDAR points, statistics can be calculated for data quality evaluation.
Classify: The module provides various classification methods for point cloud classification including ground classification, ground key point classification, interactive classification, machine-learning-based classification (for building, vegetation, and custom classes) etc.
Power Line: The module supports automatic point classification(tower, conductor, shield line, insulator, drainage thread, scissors crossing line, ground point, vegetation, buildings, roads and water), real-time analysis of the powerline corridor condition and generate user-defined reports. Support simulation analysis under conditions such as high temperature, icing, and strong winds. Provide various tower and conductor measurement and analysis tools, such as tower tilt, sag analysis, etc. In addition, it supports the generation of tower fine inspection, wire inspection, and channel inspection routes, and checks the flight safety of the routes.
Get Started
Please refer to Installation and License to install the software. The usage is described in Tutorials.