The objectives of the WATERPIPE project:

• To develop a novel, high resolution imaging ground penetrating radar for the detection of pipes, leaks and  damages and the imaging of the damaged region and evaluate it at a test site.
• To produce an integrated system that will contain the equipment and a Decision-Support-System (DSS) for the rehabilitation management of the underground water pipelines that will use input from the inspections to assess, probabilistically, the time-dependent leakage and structural reliability of the pipelines and a risk-based methodology for rehabilitation decisions that considers the overall risk, including financial, social and environmental criteria.
• To field test the equipment and the DSS.

Project web-site: http://www.waterpipe-eu.org

AMS activities in the project:

• Development of the High Resolution Ground Penetrating Imaging Rarad - GPIR (Build the transmitter and receiver front-ends).
• Evaluation of the Prototype Equipment and Software Produced on Pipes of Known Performance (in Terms of Location, Damage) (Evaluator of the transmitter and receiver front-ends).
• Development of the Expert System, the Data Base, the Data Manager and the GIS Module in the DSS. System Integration and Package Integration. (Provision of the GPIR developer requirements).
• Field evaluation of the GPIR and the DSS.