Mine Survey Services

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Mining surveying can be summarised as ‘the digging of mine shafts and galleries and the calculation of volume of rock’, although it entails much more than this in practice. Geometric constraints – e.g. vertical shafts and narrow passages – demand the use of specific survey techniques. While the basic principles of surveying may have remained largely unchanged throughout the ages, the instruments used have not. Common technologies in mine surveying today include terrestrial laser scanning, airborne laser scanning (further referred to as ‘Lidar’), airborne photogrammetry, unmanned aerial systems (UASs), satellite imagery. Besides this, software forms an essential part of the mining surveying profession nowadays. After all, the captured data needs to be processed in order for it to be of any use.