Structural Health Monitoring on Ports

Monitoring of port infrastructure vulnerability

  • Continuous deformation control of the whole port
  • Millimeter accuracy
  • Integration of climatic and meteoceanic variables
  • Without instrumentation

Monitoring the geometric evolution of port infrastructure is key to its management. Geometric alterations can indicate vulnerability and be symptoms of damage or future failures that can paralyze the economic activity of a port, with serious operational, economic, environmental and social consequences.

Detektia uses InSAR satellite technology to monitor the deformation of port infrastructure along the entire length of the port.New satellite technologies are changing the way we observe, measure and manage our ports.

Some concrete examples where our solution has a positive impact are:

  • The continuous and non-intrusive description of the evolution of the damage produced in dykes, protection walls, embankments, etc.
  • Detection with millimetric precision of cumulative deformations produced by land consolidation in esplanades, pavements, storage areas,etc.
  • Control of permanent waste stockpiling
  • Support to the works certification’s measurement

Complementary solutions for monitoring and auscultation of deformations in seaports

Our technology allows to improve the service levels of the port and its concessions through the provision of tools of high technological value that support decision making in port management and operation in the following areas:

Reliability

Reliability of the structural health of the infrastructure

Maintenance

Infrastructure maintenance and upkeep

Works

Design and execution of maritime or land works

Investment

Assistance in the justification of granted investments

Monitoring of concessions

Indirect monitoring of concessions and activities in concessioned areas

In large ports it is unfeasible to control the geometric evolution of the entire infrastructure with instrumentation and topography alone. Its enormous extension makes it technically and economically impossible.

In these cases, InSAR technology makes perfect sense because it allows continuous and automated monitoring of deformations over the entire length of the harbor with high spatial and temporal resolution. This ability to go where other technologies cannot is the disruptive nature of InSAR.

Candela Sancho

Candela Sancho
CEO de Detektia

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    +-What is the purpose of port deformation control?

    The control of deformations in port infrastructures aims to guarantee their safety while improving decision making in the conservation and maintenance of the same.

    Early detection of deformation as a preventive action can avoid costly maintenance work in the event of major damage.

    +-What solutions do we offer for port infrastructure control?

    Traditional port deformation monitoring systems are based on systems that require both personnel and instrumentation installation. Although reliable and highly accurate, they are costly and do not make it possible to control the entire port infrastructure.

    The solution offered by Detektia is based on information from satellite imagery, complements the information gathered by traditional measurement tools and adds an additional layer of value that impacts port management decision making.

    +-Safety systems for monitoring seaport deformations without instrumentation

    The use of satellite-based DInSAR technology for port monitoring provides historical data for the last 10 years. This makes it possible to know the exact moment in which damage to the port structure occurred.

    In addition, given the availability of new images every few days, a continuous early warning system is offered to warn of any millimeter deformation.

    +-Our proposal for seaport surveillance

    In large ports it is unfeasible to control the geometric evolution of the entire infrastructure with instrumentation and topography alone.

    In these cases, the InSAR satellite technology on which Detektia's system is based makes perfect sense since it allows continuous and automated monitoring of deformations throughout the port with high spatial and temporal resolution. To this is added a layer of artificial intelligence that allows the generation of metrics and alerts that facilitate decision making in the management and maintenance of port infrastructure.