GroundProbe, a member of the Orica Group, recently celebrated the relocation of their office, facilities and Geotechnical Support Service (GSS) centre in Balikpapan, Indonesia, to better serve their growing Asian customer base. The centre, originally opened in 2012, will provide 24/7 real-time remote radar and laser monitoring services for mine slopes and tailings dams, globally. […]
READ MOREFrom Home-Grown Start-Up to Global Innovation Powerhouse – GroundProbe Turns 20
GroundProbe is immensely proud to be celebrating 20 years of operation and 20 years of keeping people and communities safe. Over the last two decades, the company has expanded from a home-grown start-up to become a global innovation powerhouse and the trusted partner of companies around the world. GroundProbe is widely accepted as the global […]
READ MOREGroundProbe Opens Third Dedicated Monitoring Centre in Belo Horizonte, Brazil
GroundProbe have opened a dedicated Geotechnical Support Service (GSS) monitoring centre in Belo Horizonte, Brazil to better serve our growing Brazilian customer base. The centre will provide 24/7 real-time remote radar and laser monitoring services for mine slopes and tailings dams. The centre joins our two existing high-tech monitoring centres in Santiago, Chile, and Balikpapan, […]
READ MOREGroundProbe Launches World-Leading Reactive Geohazard Monitoring and Alarming System
Global technology leader GroundProbe has launched the industry’s most advanced doppler radar for reactive geohazard monitoring, the RGR-Velox. RGR-Velox (Reactive Geohazard Radar) is a military-precision reactive monitoring and alarming system for tailings dam breaches, large slope failures, landslides, and avalanches. It detects, tracks and alarms on moving geohazards in real-time, keeping people, assets, and communities […]
READ MOREGroundProbe Ranks on the Australian Financial Review’s Best Places to Work List
GroundProbe is celebrating after being named on the Australian Financial Review’s (AFR) BOSS Best Places to Work list for 2021. We were honoured to rank #2 on the Agriculture, Mining & Utilities list, from nearly 700 nominated organisations across Australia and New Zealand. The prestigious annual list, published by The Australian Financial Review and Boss […]
READ MOREGroundProbe Announces New CEO
GroundProbe has announced that Brian Gillespie will step down from his role as CEO of GroundProbe, after over two years in the role. GroundProbe’s COO and co-founder, David Noon, has been appointed as the new CEO of the company. Mr Noon began his career at GroundProbe as Chief Technology Officer and after holding a number […]
READ MORE‘Engineers Australia’ Article – Excerpt – ‘This Australian Technology Helps to Avoid Dangerous Ta...
Originally written and published by Charlotte Barkla from Engineers Australia on 22 October 2020. GroundProbe’s Head of Product Development, Fernanda Carrea, interviewed by Engineers Australia on GroundProbe’s recent Australian Engineering Excellence Award (AEEA) win for the SSR-Omni. In response to major catastrophic tailings dam collapses in recent years, an Australian team has developed a […]
READ MORE‘International Mining’ Article – Excerpt – GroundProbe Brings It All Together
GroundProbe’s Chief Operating Officer, David Noon David Noon, COO at Orica-owned GroundProbe, says improving global tailings dam monitoring practices continues to be a key pillar of its vision of maximum safety for the mining industry. “In the last two years especially, a large number of mine sites have begun actively adopting best-practice monitoring solutions for […]
READ MOREGroundProbe and Nitro Consult Join Orica Monitor
GroundProbe is now part of Orica Monitor, a newly formed business stream of Orica – the world’s largest provider of commercial explosive and blasting systems to the mining, quarrying, oil and gas and construction industries. Bringing together GroundProbe and Nitro Consult – an expert in highly sensitive blasting, inner-city rock excavation, rock engineering and blast-measurement […]
READ MOREMonitorIQ: The Industry’s Latest and Most Sophisticated Data Aggregation Platform
Designed and developed by GroundProbe, MonitorIQ joins Orica‘s suite of industry-leading digital technology solutions, and is the first product launched by Orica’s new division, Orica Monitor. MonitorIQ is a data aggregation platform for geotechnical monitoring that gathers and visualises information from up to 121 different on-site sensors on the one dashboard. In an industry first, the data aggregation platform […]
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