Monitoring of the linear infrastructure: Environmental and social impacts

The use of advanced technologies is available to enhance planning, design, management, operation and maintenance of the linear infrastructure. Aerial and satellite data based on the remote sensing methods with further integration to GIS technologies represent the area of rapid responds and developments which can be leveraged to assist the linear systems risk assessment to assure the safety of linear infrastructures. Industrial and scientific achievements in satellite remote sensing methods and appropriate data processing techniques are opening a new wide technological opportunities and availabilities to develop an enhanced capability to accomplish the linear systems mapping and safety needs of the oil and gas transportation. Combination of those technologies with GIS has a valuable and significant potential for further application to a huge of cross cutting system of security issues. This paper particularly undertakes the some of aspect of application of those technologies to the linear system monitoring for safety and security assessment.