How LiDAR Can Help Your Mining Operation
Mine operations can be improved with LiDAR mapping in areas such as mine safety, the accuracy of volumetrics, compliance, and many more.
Mapping an underground, waterlogged mine with LiDAR
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 Named Leader in Mine Safety and Health Technology
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…
LiDAR 101: The benefits of LiDAR versus photogrammetry for creating digital twins
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…
Fly, Drive, and Walk- to Collect Survey Grade Data
Mobile mapping over longer distances or in some of the more challenging, featureless environments has been limited by LiDAR capabilities – until now.
How an autonomous drone mapped a complete As-built of a bridge – including the underside
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 Top Mining Safety Solutions Provider for Revolutionizing Mine Surveillance
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…
Geo Week Insights That will Move the Built World Forward
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.
Barrick Bulyanhulu and Kibali: Stope Scanning
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.
Mapping a Sinkhole and Hazardous Coastal Areas Safely
When a dangerous sinkhole the size of half a tennis court suddenly appeared at a popular tourist location on the Robe coastline, the council looked to a leading provider of spatial data services, Veris, to safely capture the data needed for accurate decision-making.