MONITORING SUBSEA CABLES

This applications relates to methods and apparatus monitoring of subsea cables (100), for example subsea power or telecommunication cables, and in particular to determining a burial status for such cables. The method involves interrogating a sensing optical fibre (107) with an interrogator unit (108...

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1. Verfasser:	GODFREY, Alastair
Format:	Patent
Sprache:	eng ; fre ; ger
Schlagworte:	CONVERSION OR DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRIC POWER ELECTRICITY GENERATION INSTALLATION OF ELECTRIC CABLES OR LINES, OR OF COMBINEDOPTICAL AND ELECTRIC CABLES OR LINES MEASURING MEASURING ELECTRIC VARIABLES MEASURING FORCE, STRESS, TORQUE, WORK, MECHANICAL POWER,MECHANICAL EFFICIENCY, OR FLUID PRESSURE MEASURING MAGNETIC VARIABLES PHYSICS TESTING
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Zusammenfassung:	This applications relates to methods and apparatus monitoring of subsea cables (100), for example subsea power or telecommunication cables, and in particular to determining a burial status for such cables. The method involves interrogating a sensing optical fibre (107) with an interrogator unit (108) to perform distributed fibre optic sensing. The sensing optical fibre (107) is deployed along the path of the subsea cable (100) and may, in some instances, form part of the subsea cable. A frequency spectrum of the respective measurement signal from at least one sensing portion of the sensing fibre (107), which corresponds to pressure variations (ΔP(t)) due to surface water waves (109) to determine a burial status. High frequency components of the pressure variation that are detected in any unburied section (106) are attenuated in buried sections (105).