The pipeline locator/coordinate mapping device is a tool to be utilized
for the location of pipeline coordinate data points via a Cartesian
coordinate system. The device will initiate from a known origin or datum
with horizontal, X coordinate; longitudinal, Y coordinate; and vertical,
Z coordinate respectively being equal to zero. As the device traverses
internally through the pipeline, away from the origin or datum, a time
increment will correspond to the recorded data, pressures and
accelerations, and hence allow the positional coordinate points along the
pipeline to be derived in three dimensional space for incremental
positions versus time. By analysis of the data displacements from the
origin or datum in succession, the pipeline may be located and mapped in
an as-built position from a frame of reference, i.e. longitudinal and
latitudinal coordinates along the earth.