DTM modelling of open pit mines using unmanned aerial vehicles

Jaroslaw Wajs1 jaroslaw.wajs [at] pwr.edu.pl
  1. Wroclaw University of Technology, Faculty of Geoengineering, Mining and Geology, Geodesy and Geoinformatics Unit, Poland, Wroclaw, Wybrzeze Wyspianskiego street 27
Abstract 

In the recent year, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) become a popular technology and is very useful for Digital Terrain Modelling and monitoring. With good UAV equipment and resources, this study is focus on the feasibility and adaptability analysis of the UAV techniques and its applications in open pit mining surveying. The first tests were developed in Belchatow open pit mine regarding the big data problem and data reduction aspect

Keywords 
UAV
UAS
open pit mines
photogrammetry
big data
DTM
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