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SLOPE STABILITY MONITORING “digital mine.” The highly accurate actual terrain data is used for autonomous vehicle and machine driving and operation within the pit. Standard mine surveying deliverables like break- lines and volume calculations are available as side effect by using the software products RiSCANPRO/RiMINING. “Highwall monitoring including automatic change detection and alarming is another important application. The onboard software tools and modules perform automatic scan data registration followed by data filtering and surface comparison processing. RIEGL has developed a new software module for automatic scan data analysis and change detection. According to scan data resolution and detectable critical changes the data is subsampled into so called voxels. Based on these voxels, further analysis like slope-angle, distribution of data within the voxel, etc is performed.” This allows monitoring and change detection even within the mm regime. The attached figure shows on the left side a critical slope deformation detected 45 minutes before the slope finally broke down. On the right side a radial dam deformation caused by water pressure is visualised. All these analysis procedures run fully automatically without any user interaction. The final real time results can be delivered to any monitoring-system for autonomous alarming by using the RIEGL data and software libraries. Besides the 3D Terrestrial Laser Scanning Systems, RIEGL offers mobile mapping systems, laser scanners and fully integrated turnkey solutions for airborne applications, as well as LiDAR sensors for unmanned laser scanning, and the RiCOPTER - RIEGL's high-performance turnkey solution for professional UAS surveying missions. “Seamless integration and compatibility of RIEGL scanners and systems and the appropriate software packages offers a comprehensive suite for professional surveying in mining.” GroundProbe GMS-Dual at Masbate Providing what it describes as “total monitoring flexibility,” GroundProbe’s GMS-Dual (Geotech Monitoring Station) can monitor using both prism points – which are paired with physical prisms installed on the pit wall – and virtual points – which are virtual prisms that can be GroundProbe believes the level of risk control required and the tailings dam site’s specific monitoring needs should correspondingly determine the monitoring solution required Drill More with RockMore Visit u at P s at Bo erum o in/E th 553 xtem in Bits Rods Couplings Shanks DTH Mining Construction Quarrying Tunneling Water-well ® R o c k M o r e ® International Rock Drilling Tools Wilsonville, Oregon USA Tel +1 (503) 682-1001 [email protected] www.geobrugg.com/mining SPECIFIC SAFETY SOLUTIONS From surface support to rockfall protection FOR THE MINING INDUSTRY SPECIFIC SAFETY SOLUTIONS FOR THE MINING INDUSTRY Judenburg, Austria Tel +43 3572-86300 [email protected] Geobrugg AG | CH-8590 Romanshorn | www.geobrugg.com AUGUST 2019 | International Mining 61