Aerial Surveying
AERIAL mapping specialist Aerometrex provides high resolution, geo-referenced LiDAR, 2-D Ortho-imagery and 3-D modelling products.
These products help provide its mining industry clients with a detailed understanding of their sites’ topography and model ground, vegetation, and infrastructure features.
With cutting-edge technology and self-run aviation operations, the ASX-listed company can offer mining clients an extensive survey coverage in an efficient and cost-effective way.
Aerometrex’s high data quality, great accuracy and quick three-day turnaround is ideal for the mining industry.
Aerometrex marketing officer Ravi Mehta said LiDAR and 2-D and 3-D modelling have proven highly useful for various applications across a mine’s life cycle from exploration to reclamation.
During the prospecting and exploration phase, mines rely highly upon this data, using it for corridor and exploration mapping as well as engineering surveys, with the advantage of reduced ground surveys and mine site disruptions.
Throughout the development and extraction stages, mines regularly calculate stockpile volumes by measuring changes across Digital Surface Models (DSMs).
One of the products that can be extracted from these high-resolution datasets. These aerial surveys provide a more accurate volume calculation than what can be achieved by traditional surveying methods and they significantly reduce the health and safety risks associated with having personnel on-site.
For open cut mines, LiDAR as well as 3-D modelling can provide a comprehensive model of an entire site.
Integrated into an interactive viewing platform, engineers, project managers and other stakeholders can immerse themselves into a virtual but accurate and photorealistic representation of their mining site to communicate complex information in a more accessible way.
Over time, these models show how the mine has expanded, providing an important historical perspective and asset when it comes time for site restoration.
Additionally, environmental monitoring, a critical component for all mine sites, can highly benefit from four-band imagery, which allows for better vegetative assessment and accurate vegetation rehabilitation planning using the near infrared band.
“At Aerometrex, we are proud of our customer service; our deliverables are driven by client requirements and our production-hardened workforce, with a total of over 770 years’ industry experience, take the time to ensure outputs are designed to address client needs,” Mr Mehta said.
In addition to LiDAR, 2-D ortho-imagery and 3-D modelling, Aerometrex also provides a subscription-based imagery service known as MetroMap.
More information on all its products and services can be found at www.aerometrex. com.au or by calling (08) 8362 9911.