Articles | Volume 5, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/gi-5-151-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/gi-5-151-2016
Research article
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20 May 2016
Research article |  | 20 May 2016

Practical considerations for enhanced-resolution coil-wrapped distributed temperature sensing

Koen Hilgersom, Tim van Emmerik, Anna Solcerova, Wouter Berghuijs, John Selker, and Nick van de Giesen

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Fibre optic distributed temperature sensing allows one to measure temperature patterns along a fibre optic cable with resolutions down to 25 cm. In geosciences, we sometimes wrap the cable to a coil to measure temperature at even smaller scales. We show that coils with narrow bends affect the measured temperatures. This also holds for the object to which the coil is attached, when heated by solar radiation. We therefore recommend the necessity to carefully design such distributed temperature probes.