Mining is a high investment, high risk and usually strictly regulated industry that requires timely and accurate geospatial data. ATLIS’s imagery is used in mining to plan exploration, perform daily operations, ensure environmental compliance, and complete land reclamation. The imagery and derivative data solutions become a valuable source that clearly reveals extraordinary details about the earth and its true landscape.
Our imagery solutions help mining professionals identify, analyze and act on geospatial data, reducing the time and resources to required to find, mind and recover the resource site.
Developing Exploration Strategies
Regardless of your global location of your potential resource site, ATLIS has the cost effective solution to stream line your exploration strategies; Whether leveraging the power and efficiency of our own digital stereo frame sensor for resource site in Central Canada or utilizing our international network of satellite sensors, LiDAR; and other aerial frame sensors. Our acquisitions options is the beginning to analyzing topographic surface features, analyzing multispectral imagery and predicating subsurface geology to gain better insight on where to mine.
Performing Daily Operations
A detailed base map over real world imagery allows geologist to extract features and see where to best drill, avoiding infrastructure such as building, roads, pipelines, water resources and utilities. The imagery will also provide historical perspective that easily integrates with the mine plan or models. More current imagery and contours can be added in the future to detect changes over time.
Monitoring Environmental Conditions
Before initiating mining operations, engineers can employ multispectral imagery to plan and implement control measures for air, noise, land and water pollution and ensure regulatory compliance. Near infrared imagery is essential for analyzing the impact of surrounding vegetation and quantifying the effects of daily mining activities, especially in areas of underground mining. A well developed plan minimizes the impact of mining activities on the immediate environment, neighbouring communities and long term land capability.
Reclaiming Impacted Areas
ATLIS’s has access to a world of imagery varying in dates which can reflect the impact of mining a habitat and is used to document the progress of restoring it to acceptable government standards. Using imagery and contour data as a tool to quantify and monitor vegetation and disturbance over time is efficient and cost effective for both underground and open cut mining.