Hovermap™
The versatile SLAM based mapper, making data capture fast and simple.
High-Resolution, Accurate 3D Point Clouds for the Mining Industry
Technology Transfer Centre – CSIRO,
1 Technology Court,
Pullenvale,
QLD 4069,
Australia
Emesent is a world-leader in drone autonomy, LiDAR mapping, and data analytics. Since its inception in 2018, Emesent has built a reputation for advanced autonomy and high-quality data capture in the mining, infrastructure, and forestry industries. With an extensive list of global distributors, their solution includes hardware, software, and services.
Emesent’s Hovermap is the world’s most versatile LiDAR mapping solution, capturing high-resolution scans of inaccessible areas safely, easily, and quickly. An advanced LiDAR mapping payload, Hovermap allows drones to fly autonomously and map hazardous or GPS-denied environments.
Fly, drive or walk to capture data, and produce geo-referenced point clouds, in under 30 minutes.
Improve the safety of hazardous inspections and surveys by substituting a drone for a person and gain unprecedented levels of data quality to inform all your operational decision making.
Scan stopes in minutes
Use Hovermap to inspect a stope in less time than it takes to set up a traditional Cavity Monitoring System, while you remain at a safe distance. The output, rich, geo-referenced point clouds that include areas previously hidden by shadows, provides geotechnical and volumetric data to identify stope volumes and heights, confirm backfill volumes, improve scheduling and backfill design. Hovermap’s ability to quickly map any structure means that stope inspections now have minimal impact on production.
Draw points
Reduce production time lost to hang-ups. Safely pilot Hovermap from the extraction drive to gain a clear view of the blockage and collect the data needed to prepare a targeted approach for its removal.
Ore passes
Stay on top of wear and damage within ore passes and minimize interruptions to production with rapid Hovermap inspections. Attached to a drum winch, Hovermap quickly maps ore passes, producing accurate and detailed data for your mine plan.
Deformation monitoring and ground support
Regularly monitor drive or drift ground support for correct installation, mechanical damage, or convergence. Hovermap’s rapid, high-resolution scans provide quantitative change detection data that guide your response plans.
Drift development
Scan drifts pre- and post-blast to capture volumes, over- and under-break and calculate bulking factors. A rapid scan with Hovermap allows you to accurately schedule the correct number of trucks for bogging. Regular scans also help detect deformation in these areas where personnel is exposed to rock mass hazards.
Old workings
Bring accurate scans of old mine areas, which may have been untouched for over a century, into your mine plan. Hovermap’s autonomous flight capability allows you to digitize entire networks of historical workings in a day, while you remain in cthe ontrolled ground.
Structure detection and rock mass characterization
Capture a high-resolution surface representation to accurately detect and characterize structural features for geotechnical assessment and planning.
Reduce the exposure of personnel to hazardous environments. Fly Hovermap into stopes, draw points, drifts, or other high-risk areas while personnel remains away from brows, confined spaces, or heights. Safely check rill angles and confirm bund heights and locations.
Hovermap’s rotating LiDAR sensor provides a 360-degree field of view, ensuring shadowless, 3D data capture, that produces rich, georeferenced data sets. Be rest assured that inspections with Hovermap produce high-quality data that deliver the insights you need, whether for convergence monitoring, structural feature classification or volumetrics for over / under break, reconciliations, and stockpile paste scheduling. Add additional sensors such as cameras or gas monitors for further data analytics.
With Hovermap, press one button to start scanning whether you are walking, driving, or flying. Hovermap can even attach to RC buggies, loaders, or a winch to scan hard-to-reach places, quickly, and safely.
Forget the long set up time of a CMS. Setup Hovermap, map, download, and process data in under 30 minutes. You can now capture data in less time, at a lower cost, and minimize production disruptions.
Operating Hovermap does not require specialist drone pilot skills or a team of people. One person with training can operate and map any structures.
Hovermap is used to map stopes, drifts, orepasses, drawpoints, old workings, crushers, stockpiles, high walls and low walls, and an array of aboveground infrastructure. In fact, any environment that is hazardous or GPS-denied. The quick-release mechanism allows you to fly a mission and then unclip Hovermap to perform a walk-through scan. Multiple scans are automatically merged by Hovermap’s software to deliver a complete, rich, LiDAR point cloud.
The versatile SLAM based mapper, making data capture fast and simple.
Deep and high-stress conditions make mining inherently high-risk environments for personnel, equipment, and infrastructure. Laser scanners are used to capture data in underground areas so that mining and geotechnical engineers can understand the effect of mining-induced and tectonic stresses on the rock mass and maintain safe and efficient operations.
Drone autonomy technology developed by Australian high-tech company Emesent has allowed DJI’s M300 drone to fly autonomously underground in what’s believed to be a world-first for the platform.
Global technology company Emesent has partnered with leading software developer Deswik to enable mining companies to incorporate high-quality data captured in inaccessible locations into their mine plans and surveys.
New beyond-line-of-sight technology will increase safety and efficiency in mining, construction, and disaster response.
Emesent has released Colorization functionality for its Hovermap LiDAR mapping solution.
Emesent technology partner, Velodyne Lidar, Inc., uses a Hovermap unit to promote the quality of the point cloud data that can be produced by their Puck LITE™ LIDAR sensor. Hovermap, a drone autonomy and mapping payload, rotates the sensor to give a 360° x 360° field-of-view, producing shadowless, high-resolution point clouds.
A drone and LiDAR system for surveying stope voids at BHP’s Olympic Dam copper-uranium mine in South Australia has brought improvements in scan data quality.
Technology Transfer Centre – CSIRO
1 Technology Court
Pullenvale
QLD 4069
Australia