Modern Solution for Fast and Accurate Inventorization of Open-Pit Mines by the Active Remote Sensing Technique—Case Study of Mikoszów Granite Mine (Lower Silesia, SW Poland)

Jaroslaw Wajs, Paweł Trybała, Justyna Górniak-Zimroz, Joanna Krupa-Kurzynowska and Damian Kasza
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Jaroslaw Wajs: Faculty of Geoengineering, Mining and Geology, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Wyb. Wyspianskiego 27 St., 50-370 Wrocław, Poland
Paweł Trybała: Faculty of Geoengineering, Mining and Geology, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Wyb. Wyspianskiego 27 St., 50-370 Wrocław, Poland
Justyna Górniak-Zimroz: Faculty of Geoengineering, Mining and Geology, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Wyb. Wyspianskiego 27 St., 50-370 Wrocław, Poland
Joanna Krupa-Kurzynowska: Faculty of Geoengineering, Mining and Geology, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Wyb. Wyspianskiego 27 St., 50-370 Wrocław, Poland
Damian Kasza: Faculty of Geoengineering, Mining and Geology, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Wyb. Wyspianskiego 27 St., 50-370 Wrocław, Poland

Energies, 2021, vol. 14, issue 20, 1-17

Abstract: Mining industry faces new technological and economic challenges which need to be overcome in order to raise it to a new technological level in accordance with the ideas of Industry 4.0. Mining companies are searching for new possibilities of optimizing and automating processes, as well as for using digital technology and modern computer software to aid technological processes. Every stage of deposit management requires mining engineers, geologists, surveyors, and environment protection specialists who are involved in acquiring, storing, processing, and sharing data related to the parameters describing the deposit, its exploitation and the environment. These data include inter alia: geometries of the deposit, of the excavations, of the overburden and of the mined mineral, borders of the support pillars and of the buffer zones, mining advancements with respect to the set borders, effects of mining activities on the ground surface, documentation of landslide hazards and of the impact of mining operations on the selected elements of the environment. Therefore, over the life cycle of a deposit, modern digital technological solutions should be implemented in order to automate the processes of acquiring, sharing, processing and analyzing data related to deposit management. In accordance with this idea, the article describes the results of a measurement experiment performed in the Mikoszów open-pit granite mine (Lower Silesia, SW Poland) with the use of mobile LiDAR systems. The technology combines active sensors with automatic and global navigation system synchronized on a mobile platform in order to generate an accurate and precise geospatial 3D cloud of points.

Keywords: mobile laser scanning; Velodyne LiDAR; Riegl scanning system; open pit mine (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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