Industry
Drone services for aggregate pits and mining in Alberta
Pits are measured on a cycle, and the value of the numbers depends entirely on whether this cycle is comparable to the last one. Capture method, positioning and reference surface are held constant so the trend means something.
Stockpile volumes come from an RTK capture processed against a stated reference surface. The figure arrives with the method attached, which matters when the number goes into a reserves report or a reconciliation.
Pit terrain models support face progression, haul road planning and reclamation reporting. Repeat captures on a quarterly or annual cycle build the record that regulators and auditors ask for.
A recent aggregate pit capture returned 2.51 cm/px at 0.01 m RMSE using live network corrections, with RTK tagged source imagery handed over so the client's own photogrammetry software could reprocess independently.
Services used most in this sector
Sector reference
- Reference capture
- 2.51 cm/px, 0.01 m RMSE
- Positioning
- NTRIP absolute
- Cycle
- Monthly to annual
- Handover
- Processed outputs or raw RTK imagery
Raw RTK tagged imagery is delivered on request, which suits operators whose engineering teams process in Correlator3D, Pix4D or Metashape and want to own the pipeline.