Period: 01. 01. 2021 – 30. 06. 2022

Funding SOURCE: ELES

GEMMA CONTACT: prof. dr. Domen Mongus

Establishing a vegetation management information system

Abstract:

The objectives of the development of the vegetation management information system are to optimise the existing vegetation management in transmission line routes. We need to improve the planning of route clearing so that interventions are carried out in a time and scope that results in lower costs with higher operational reliability. By introducing this system, we need to minimise the risk of network outages caused by excessive vegetation in the routes. We want to reduce the costs of our own and external services by planning the location and timing of interventions efficiently. The aim of introducing the system is to increase the efficiency of long-term planning for route clearance, to increase the transparency of the provision of these services and to increase the visibility of the actual condition of the routes of the transmission lines.

The main functionalities of the planned system are the calculation of vegetation growth based on predictive growth models and algorithms for optimising interventions based on calculations of the estimated costs of interventions. The system will use data from different sources to produce predictive models, and will include several different areas that affect vegetation growth. It is foreseen to identify tree species in each area and to determine tree trunks and tree heights based on LiDAR data from different sources. Different climatic conditions and land variability will be taken into account.