IDS: Introducing New Practices in Slope Monitoring
IDS: Introducing New Practices in Slope Monitoring
IDS GeoRadar is a leading supplier of robust, reliable and user-friendly radar systems, including slope-monitoring radar and ground-penetrating radar for mining applications.
The IBIS product family offers robust and accurate slope monitoring radar solutions able to rapidly measure slope movements over large areas with sub-millimetre accuracy, providing early warning for impending wall failures. Currently, the most prominent international mining groups choose IDS radars for their reliability, robustness and unrivalled performance.
With FPM360 and multi-scale movement detection algorithm, it is now possible to cover the entire pit and take advantage of the IBIS system’s capabilities for detecting very slow movements in support of mine planning, by taking actions even before displacement starts to interfere with operations.
Slope monitoring radar features:
The IBIS-FM is a modular semi-permanent long range slope monitoring radar. By employing a new advanced radar technology, IBIS-FM is able to set an unmatched acquisition time, leading to the following advantages:
The alternative IBIS configuration, IBIS-FMT, provides highly accurate, real-time and all-weather measurement of mine wall movements and reliable early warnings for impending failures, with the added value of being fully integrated on a trailer.
The system is ideal for installations where mobility and long range are required. In addition to the standard IBIS advantages, IBIS-FMT offers the following extra benefits:
The IBIS-Rover provides highly accurate real-time measurements of mine wall movements, as well as reliable early warning of impending failures, with the added value of high mobility, fast deployment and an enlarged field of view of up to 270°.
IBIS-Rover’s features make it an ideal system for open cut, long-wall operations, multiple open pits where frequent relocation is required, or when urgent active monitoring is required.
In addition to all the functions and proven benefits of the IBIS family, IBIS-Rover offers the following extra benefits:
The FPM360 is an integrated monitoring system based on multiple radar units, controlled and interfaced by a single advanced software platform to provide complete situation awareness. With 360° coverage of the pit slopes in real-time, geotechnical engineers are equipped with a universal image of the entire pit providing exhaustive information about potential areas of instability. FPM360 benefits:
Eagle-Vision is a new solution on the mining market featuring high image resolution, panoramic coverage and photo-geocoding capabilities. Eagle-Vision is able to capture panoramic photos of the entire pit while keeping a bench resolution at a range of thousands of meters from the slope, providing effective visual information on mine wall stability in support of geotechnical investigations:
IDS is the leading supplier of multi-frequency and multi-channel ground penetrating radar (GPR) designed for non-destructive testing and geophysical investigations.
IBIS-FB is a revolutionary remote sensing monitoring system designed to support the assessment of blasting operations and control their impact both on the pit slopes and nearby structures.
Based on microwave interferometry technology, IBIS-FB provides remote broad area measurements of ground vibrations with high accuracy. After every single blast IBIS-FB measures a range of performance indexes at multiple points at long distances, without the need to physically place any sensor or marker on the slope.
IBIS-FB offers the following advantages:
IDS: Introducing New Practices in Slope Monitoring
The IBIS-FMT system is the latest addition to the IDS family of slope monitoring radar designed to improve safety and maximize productivity within open pit mines.
The Anagold Çöpler Gold Mine in Turkey takes advantage of the flexibility of the IBIS-Rover to cover multiple critical areas in complex pit geometry.
IBIS Dispatch allows despatch operators to make critical and timely decisions, without interfering with radar data. This advanced software platform provides despatch operators with all the alarm state information coming from IBIS units without the need to deal directly with radar data, or interfere with IBIS Guardian projects.
The Eagle-Vision camera is a unique solution on the mining market featuring high image resolution, panoramic coverage and photo-geocoding capabilities all in a single integrated system.
The FPM360 monitoring solution covers the entire pit, providing full image information on slope stability.
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1 June 2017IDS GeoRadar and TRE ALTAMIRA as leading providers to the mining industry continue collaborating to offer a radar integrated solution covering all mine stability issues.
25 May 2017IDS GeoRadar and TRE ALTAMIRA were invited to present SAR applications for the mining sector within the course on 'Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Technology for Mine Planning and Safety Management' at the Department of Mining Engineering, IIT Kharagpur, India, on 7-10 February 2017.
22 May 2017IDS GeoRadar, the leading provider of slope monitoring radar systems (IBIS) worldwide, and TRE ALTAMIRA, the worldwide leader in ground-monitoring services using satellite InSAR, are pleased to announce a new integrated monitoring service to mine companies, capitalising on their expertise in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) technologies.
28 March 2017IBIS have introduced a slope monitoring radar system able to resolve the spatial direction of displacement over hundreds of thousands of pixels, in real time.
16 June 2016IDS is pleased to present IBIS-FB, the new IBIS radar for broad area monitoring of blast-induced vibrations.
3 April 2016IDS is pleased to introduce IBIS Guardian 3.1, the latest release of IBIS Guardian software, combining a reworked user interface with the most advanced automatic atmospheric correction algorithm available on the market.
11 December 2015IBIS Dispatch is the brand new IDS software allowing dispatch operators to make critical and timely decisions, without interfering with radar data. IBIS Dispatch provides all the alarm state information coming from IBIS units in a user-friendly and intuitive way.
19 November 2015IDS is pleased to present the latest member of the IBIS family of slope monitoring radar designed to improve safety within open pit mines.
10 June 2015IDS is proud to announce the release on the market of its new advanced camera system, the brand new Eagle-Vision camera.
17 October 2014At IDS we are proud to announce that our technology has aided KUC technical staff in the quest to increase mine safety and protect the lives of their employees.
19 April 2013During the second half of October 2012, IDS, along with its Peruvian partner Quimica Suiza Industrial, installed two IBIS-M slope monitoring radar units at Toquepala, a mine located in Tacna Province, Tacna Department, Peru, owned and operated by Southern Peru Copper Corporation (SPCC).
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