Safety benefits to search and rescue scenarios provided by Emesent’s Hovermap drone autonomy have been recognized with Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation’s (CSIRO) highest science award, The Chair’s Medal for Science and Engineering Excellence. The honor was awarded to Team CSIRO Data61, composed of members from CSIRO’s Data61, Emesent, and Georgia Institute of…
Mine operations can be improved with LiDAR mapping in areas such as mine safety, the accuracy of volumetrics, compliance, and many more.
Underground mines can be extremely dangerous. The Nexa Vazante mine has one of the highest flows of water in Latin American mines. This makes mapping with mining drones difficult, which is a concern as this method is used to increase personnel safety. The high humidity from the water content can cause condensation in the LiDAR…
Emesent’s drone autonomy and mapping payload, Hovermap ST, has won the 2022 NIOSH Mine Safety and Health Technology Innovation Awards for the metal industry sector. Chosen by the selection committee in recognition of Hovermap ST’s contribution to advancing mine worker safety. A contribution that was proven in an example from Glencore Kidd mine, situated outside…
Welcome to our 101 series, where we take a beginner’s look at LiDAR, mobile mapping, digital twins, and all things Hovermap related. This article explores the pros and cons of popular digital survey technologies. A digital twin is an exact digital representation of a real-world space. Digital twins are used in various industries, from automotive…
Mobile mapping over longer distances or in some of the more challenging, featureless environments has been limited by LiDAR capabilities – until now.
About 15 miles inland from Seattle, down a utility road in timber country, is a steel bridge that was seemingly impossible for autonomous drone operators to capture in a complete as-built scan. The City of Seattle, owners of the bridge and land, have been reviewing different LiDAR scanning systems to assist with maintaining their properties…
Emesent has been named Top Mining Safety Solutions Provider 2022 by the Metals and Mining Review for the autonomous, mobile scanning solution – Hovermap ST. Combining collision avoidance and autonomous flight technologies, Hovermap ST mounted to a drone is able to fly into inaccessible areas, such as stopes, drawpoints, and orepasses, to capture shadowless, high quality point…
Fresh from Geo Week, Aaron Newby, Emesent’s Channel Sales Director in America, will share in this webinar what the buzz was at Geo Week and how we can take advantage of these coming developments.
Shadowing in CMS scans was a perennial challenge at Barrick’s Bulyanhulu and Kibali sites. Surveyors were unable to obtain accurate and complete production data using the traditional pole-mounted CMS scanning method, particularly in larger, more inaccessible stopes. Missing data affected the calculation of mine material volumes for end-of-month reconciliation.
