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Distributed Temperature Sensing (DTS)

May 15, 2018

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The purpose of this paper is to acquaint the engineer with the technology, terms and physical principles of Distributed Temperature Sensing (DTS), a technology that allows the measurement of temperature along a passive fiber optic element.

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