Picking Up Good Vibrations: Engineers Merge Two Technologies to Improve Inspection of Wooden Power Pole Crossarms

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A merging of two technologies is expected to reduce costs and increase the accuracy of inspecting millions of wooden crossarms that hold up power lines worldwide. Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have merged laser vibrometry and neural networks to create a remote inspection system that analyzes crossarms from the air.

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