Identifying and Correcting Step Losses in Single-Ended Fiber-Optic Distributed Temperature Sensing Data

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Hausner, Mark B.
Kobs, Scott B.

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2016

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Fiber-optic distributed temperature sensing (DTS) makes it possible to observe temperatures on spatial scales as fine as centimeters and at frequencies up to 1 Hz. Over the past decade, fiber-optic DTS instruments have increasingly been employed to monitor environmental temperatures, from oceans to atmospheric monitoring. Because of the nature of environmental deployments, optical fibers deployed for research purposes often encounter step losses in the Raman spectra signal. Whether these phenomena occur due to cable damage or impingements, sharp bends in the deployed cable, or connections and splices, the step losses are usually not adequately addressed by the calibration routines provided by instrument manufacturers and can be overlooked in postprocessing calibration routines as well. Here we provide a method to identify and correct for the effects of step losses in raw Raman spectra data. The utility of the correction is demonstrated with case studies, including synthetic and laboratory data sets.

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Hausner, M. B., & Kobs, S. (2016). Identifying and Correcting Step Losses in Single-Ended Fiber-Optic Distributed Temperature Sensing Data. Journal of Sensors, 2016, 1�"10. doi:10.1155/2016/7073619

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1687-725X

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