After a natural disaster, repairing critical infrastructure can take years, making it difficult to return to life as usual. Forming an accurate damage assessment is vital as the first step [...]

Digitally capturing 3D point cloud data for oil and gas assets presents unique challenges and opportunities. An onshore compressor station is no exception, comprising vast amounts of equipment that typically [...]

CMOC's Northparkes mine is Australia's first block cave mine and one of Australia's largest copper producers, providing 26,997 tonnes of copper in 2020. In 2018 Northparkes commenced a ventilation upgrade [...]

This report, produced by Verdantix, delves into the features that enable Hovermap to assist in the rapid creation of digital twins, including: the ability to enable compatible drones to navigate [...]

GeoZICHT sought a tool to enhance the collection of complete visual inspection data for bridge inspections while also increasing the overall safety of the underlying process. As the bearer of [...]

Mount Isa Mines improves survey safety and efficiency The Emesent Hovermap helps Mount Isa Mines maintain safety and mining efficiency through rapid scanning of underground areas. An alternative to CMS, [...]

Brierley Associates sought a solution to tunnel inspection that would reduce the disruption to traffic while keeping the inspection team safe. Instead of using the typical tunnel inspection method of [...]

Hovermap helps UDM Group reduce time-on-site for a bridge survey and flood study. Utility Detection and Mapping (UDM) Group is an Australian survey firm based in Cambridge, Tasmania, that conducts [...]

Kalmar Municipality captured a heritage landmark completely and quickly - a great start to their digital capture of the municipality. The municipal government of Kalmar, Sweden, embarked on an initiative [...]

Walden Environmental Engineering have realized new revenue opportunities Walden have also improved efficiencies, all through their partnership with Hovermap user Harkin Aerial. Harkin have simplified and streamlined complex projects, including [...]

How Emesent Hovermap technology is helping Glencore improve its understanding of stope conditions at the Kidd Operations mine site. Kidd Operations mine in Ontario, Canada, operates at depths below 3,000 [...]

Improving convergence and ground control monitoring at Glencore's Kidd Operations Creek Operations with Emesent Hovermap. At Glencore’s Kidd Operations, the geotech team rely on data captured with Hovermap to inform [...]

Hovermap provides Grass Valley Center for the Arts great insights after a new renovation and valuable data for future renovations. The Grass Valley Center for the Arts is a multi-use [...]

Underground mines see savings on equipment and consultancy services with Hovermap’s versatility providing multiple applications. Hovermap's capability to reduce safety risks for personnel and equipment, and improve mining efficiency, comes [...]

Improving Convergence Monitoring Using LiDAR Data at Rio Tinto's Argyle Diamond Mine Hovermap mobile LiDAR scanner improves safety and areal coverage in convergence monitoring. In December 2019, Rio Tinto engaged [...]

In November 2020, Emesent partner Dwyka Mining Services was contracted to assess the geometry and volume of a cavity that was exposed in a client’s open pit, following surface blasting. [...]

How Emesent Hovermap technology helped Evolution Mining improve its stope design and reconciliation process at Mungari gold mine In March 2020, Evolution’s survey team purchased Hovermap to map stopes. However, [...]

How mobile LiDAR data delivers better outcomes at BHP’s Olympic Dam mine BHP’s Olympic Dam mine was an early adopter of Hovermap. First deployed in Feb 2019 to map stopes, [...]

Petra Diamonds save millions in remediation costs at its Finsch Mine. Finsch mine management needed an accurate condition assessment of an orepass to help them decide between remediation, to repair [...]

Emesent Hovermap technology helps LKAB complete fall of ground inspections quickly and safely at Kiruna mine. Swedish mining company LKAB mines and processes iron ore for the global steel market. [...]

Emesent Hovermap technology helps Pertamina safely survey a bulk oil storage tank at the Balongan refinery. Indonesian national energy company Pertamina produces and processes oil and gas for the domestic [...]

Map stopes in minutes Hovermap enables data capture of critical underground mine excavations, delivering new insights for mine planning and operations. With Hovermap, mine and geotechnical engineers can easily map [...]

Mapping Vertical Infrastructure - Hovermap in Underground Mines Vertical infrastructure, orepasses, shafts, and raises, can be difficult, dangerous, and costly to scan. With Hovermap, it’s now possible to capture data [...]

Accuracy Evaluation: Georeferencing Hovermap Point Clouds using ‘Best Fit’ Sphere Registration in CloudCompare Lightweight and easy to deploy, the Emesent Hovermap LiDAR scanning system is opening new opportunities to quickly [...]

Safe, Fast & Easy Mapping of Underground Hard Rock Mines Mining and regional stresses make underground mines high-risk environments for personnel, equipment, and infrastructure. Measuring and monitoring cavity conditions are [...]

Discover 20+ of Hovermap’s many data capture applications across a wide range of industries. Hovermap is a mobile lidar mapping solution designed for challenging GPS-denied environments. Uniquely versatile, Hovermap’s scanning [...]

Abstract This paper discusses the process of acquiring and preparing drone-based LiDAR data for geomechanics and explores the spatial and structural relationship between drone data and window mapping for implementation [...]

Mobile LiDAR for underground geomechanics This paper details the background to how mobile mapping technology has been introduced into underground mining geomechanics. The hardware and processing limitations are discussed with [...]

Hovermap achieves ±5 millimetre accuracy in walking scan Lightweight, easy to use and deploy, the versatile Emesent Hovermap mobile LiDAR scanner is changing the way that people think about the [...]

XM2 PURSUIT Special Effects XM2 PURSUIT are experts in aerial cinematography for the film and television and commercial industries. For VFX work, they capture data to develop highly accurate 3D [...]