UAVs, to the rescue!
- Quabbling Quill | Written for
- May 13, 2017
- 2 min read
An industry that requires solid manpower to flourish has taken a new techno turn. Mining accidents and safety hinges have left this industry with scars and a formidable dip in the employment. However, the spare particles used for creating world renowned equipments turn around to bow with gratitude. UAVs, built with the very same materials found in mining sites, have secured the safety belt as their aerial flying arsenals.
Top 3 unprecedented services rendered by the UAV technology.
These drones need no pilots and are operated by remote controls. These flying machines are inbuilt photographers where cameras are fixed around the drones to capture images of the mining site. Potential locations are surveyed in prior before sending the brave miners to collect the samples. Orthophotos, point clouds, volume calculation and 3D models can be comfortably derived after an ariel exercise. A touch and feel dominated industry has welcomed distance with same or yet better results.
UAVs can be narrowed down based on the mining intention. A friendly ariel inspection, a mining safety protocol enabler, ariel imagery of a prospective site and an in-depth research oriented data provision. Popular experts at this field claim fixed-wing drones are suitable to map large areas, rotary drones can collect the most accurate data and are predominantly used to cover inaccessible areas. This information has played the bedrock of research materials where engineers are assessing UAV’s compatibility with other surveyor equipments like total stations, GNSS systems and terrestrial laser scanners.
Mining requires no man has been proven once again. Once a location is narrowed down, the drone takes off and flies around the land in zigzag motions to avoid blindspots. The phogrammetric pictures of the rocky terrain is then converted into realtime data pumped objects by a study of the GPS location and the height at which the drone flew. Usually colours are used to indicate the height and density of the arena in the ROM pad survey. All of it, required man’s hand a decade ago.
A simple strategy of placing a machine in the place of man has turned into the best data accumulator in the field of minerals, environment, fashion, geology, hydrology and construction.
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