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Remote Sensing

The ISAAC Research Centre has a range of equipment which is suitable for ground-based and airborne sensing, which enables remote analysis at a distance of several metres. This removes the need for scaffolding to lift the mobile instruments and operators to the surface being analysed, making analysis quicker, safer and cheaper. The results obtained are more accurate, as the instrumentation is operated from a stable location, and can analyse deposits which would otherwise be inaccessible. 

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Our equipment has been used industrial applications, including detection of corrosion on bridges and other metal structures, and a recent collaboration with the National Grid used remote analysis to monitor to condition of UK electrical transmission assets.

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In a heritage context, our remote sensing equipment has been used for analysis of large scale wall paintings in cave structures, decorated ceilings and churches and salt mapping in an English Heritage property. A particularly novel use of our remote SWIR Hyperspectral Imaging system was for condition assessment of an entire collection of enamels at the British museum, without moving the objects from display.   â€‹â€‹

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