GOOD DESIGN, DESIGN INNOVATION AND DESIGN IMPACT GroundProbe’s Geotech Monitoring Station (GMS) last week received the prestigious Good Design Award® Best in Class in the Product Design category. The annual Good Design Awards is Australia’s most prestigious awards for design and innovation. The award was won by GroundProbe and their industrial design partner, Designworks. Both companies also acknowledge […]
READ MOREGroundProbe Attends CIM 2018 Convention and EXPO in Canada
Last week, GroundProbe attended CIM 2018 Convention and EXPO; a three day mining-industry event comprised of expert-led workshops, technical presentations covering twelve innovative themes from across the mining sector, and Canada’s premier mining trade show. Held in Vancouver, Canada, the CIM 2018 Convention and EXPO was attended by over 5000 attendees, including 450 exhibitors, and […]
READ MOREGroundProbe Hosts Geotechnical Monitoring Workshop in Peru
GroundProbe’s Peru office recently held a Geotechnical Monitoring Workshop for their customers, with guest speakers from GroundProbe, Orica and 3vGeomatics presenting across a range of topics. The event was well attended with 55 representatives from GroundProbe’s customer mine sites across Peru taking part in the workshop. “Held in Arequipa, Peru, this city was chosen as the […]
READ MOREGroundProbe Launches the GMS at Slope Stability Symposium
GroundProbe recently attended Slope Stability Symposium 2018 – the largest slope stability conference in the world. During the event, we launched our latest innovative monitoring solution to the market, the GMS (Geotech Monitoring Station). The Symposium is held every two years and brings together mining, civil, geotechnical, geological, hydrogeological and geophysical engineers from around the […]
READ MOREGMS: Prism and Prismless Monitoring
TOTAL MONITORING FLEXIBILITY The GMS provides total monitoring flexibility. It allows users to not only monitor prisms, but also add new virtual points on the wall. Reflecting the laser signal directly off the rock, the GMS achieves precision users can act on.
READ MOREGMS: Dual Cameras and Three Levels of Zoom
SET-AND-FORGET The GMS is set-and-forget, requiring no hardware interaction after deployment and minimal maintenance over time. Users can control the unit from the software, allowing visual inspections to be carried out entirely remotely.
READ MOREGMS: SSR-Viewer Integration
RAPID, PRECISE ANALYSIS The GMS is fully integrated with SSR-Viewer, GroundProbe’s patented, market-leading software. It offers the rapid, precise analysis of data to detect trends, and the ability to send alerts for immediate action. Its powerful data visualisation, charting and analysis tools take the GMS well beyond the capabilities of typical robotic total stations.
READ MOREGMS: End-to-End Monitoring Solution
LONG-TERM, BACKGROUND MONITORING The GMS (Geotech Monitoring Station) monitors vast mine areas for long periods of many months to many years. It detects and measures deformation on slopes, tailings dams, dumps, cuttings, and vegetated slopes.
READ MOREGML-Underground: Targeted Ground Support Case Study
Underground environments are very dynamic by nature, with the effectiveness of ground support always changing. Through monitoring, areas of high risk can be identified and rehabilitated in a targeted way. Cracks could be seen on visual inspection, yet the customer was unsure if the shaft wall was moving, accelerating, slowing down or had stopped moving.
READ MOREDebswana OLDM Diamond Mines Record Deployment
October 2017 saw a record deployment for GroundProbe’s South African Business Unit with six industry-leading, Series-3 Slope Stability Radars (SSR) delivered to Debswana OLDM – Orapa, Damtshaa and Letlhakane Mines – in Botswana. The six Series-3 radars were comprised of: two SSR-XT replacements at Letlhakane DK1 pit, one SSR-FX replacement at Orapa, one new SSR-FX […]
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