Airfields
Airports & Runways
Airports are among the most expensive projects a city or region can invest in. They provide economic and cultural connectivity to national and international passengers. With changing climates and aging infrastructure, inspection, monitoring, maintenance, and management for airfield concrete and asphalt pavement is important for maintaining uninterrupted operations, reducing foreign object debris, and eliminating damage and danger to aircraft.
However, the current pavement condition assessment and inspection method is laborious, time-consuming, and subjective. With current methods, pavement engineers map 20% of an airfields pavement condition by hand, leading to subjectivity and incomplete results.
The AUTOSPEX™ solution eliminates incompleteness and subjectivity. Using AI, AUTOSPEX™ maps and quantifies pavement distresses automatically for a complete digital baseline . By creating a digital baseline for airfield pavement with AUTOSPEX™, asset owners receive the most objective and quantifiable asset deterioration information for proactive and preventive maintenance, helping to eliminate pavement-related damage to aircraft and operational disruptions due to pavement maintenance and construction.
With AUTOSPEXᵀᴹ, asset owners can easily navigate their structure, interact with the detected defects, and discern the length, width, or volume of the distress. This dataset allows asset owners to quantifiably monitor their structure and how its performing over time, estimate quantities for repair contractors, and use the data for PCI calculations.
What to Expect...
- 3D Model
- Map of ASTM Distresses
- Report Detailing Methodologies
Benefits
NIRICSONᵀᴹ offers a complete and reliable solution for asset owners. AUTOSPEXᵀᴹ allows users to visualize and overlay defects discovered by optical, thermal, and acoustic analyses, providing a baseline assessment of the structure, which can be tracked over time.
Change Detection
Repeatable data collected, creating a baseline for a reliable asset deterioration model
Enhanced Maintenance Planning
Digitized referencing allows for an integrated distress map and PCI analysis
Reduced Airfield Downtime
1 hour data collection scan using autonomous UAV flights
Unprecedented Documentation
Complete survey of 100% of airfield surface at 2mm resolution
Why Choose Niricson?
NIRICSON offers a complete and reliable solution for asset owners. AUTOSPEXᵀᴹ allows users to visualize and overlay defects discovered by optical, thermal, and acoustic analyses, providing a baseline assessment of the structure, which can be tracked over time.
Niricson's Method | Traditional Method | |
Repeatable Through Time |  |  |
Reduced Operational Liability | | |
Time-Efficient | | |
Reduces risk of asset failure | | |
Identifies and Quantifies Defects | | |
100% Coverage of Asset | | |
Predictive Capabilities and Deterioration Modeling | | |
3D Visualization of Data | | |
Allows for Better Allocation of Maintenance, Rehab, Replacement and Deterioration Modeling/Asset Lifecycle Planning | | |
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