SETUP OF A CORONA CAMERA AND IMAGE CO-REGISTRATION / CALIBRATION

Abstract. Power lines are an important infrastructure and need special attention. Their functionality is of high importance for our life. Their monitoring is important to guarantee their sustainable operation. It is done mostly by aerial survey using different technologies. In addition to standard setups, e.g. LiDAR and high resolution RGB cameras, often UV cameras, so called Corona Cameras, are used to detect unwanted discharges. In many cases this UV cameras are combined along with RGB cameras with a similar field of view in order to superimpose the detected UV signals onto a visual image of the inspected objects. Discharges at power lines indicate findings that should be monitored with such additional sensors like thermal or high resolution mapping cameras then.

The use of Corona-Cameras for such inspection work needs several steps of calibration, co registering and direct referencing methods in order to get them in a good georeference to the other sensors.