MyneSight Drone Mapping in Underground Simulator

MyneSight Innovative Training Solutions have been conducting drone mapping in RCOE’s underground training facility. Kevin Masterson, General Manager of MyneSight, described the drone and mapping software as two separate units.

 “If you just think about the drone as the method of transportation, then you can actually have the mapping software unit mounted on a vehicle if necessary, or you can carry it like a torch.

Drone mapping is unbelievably accurate. It produces a 3D image at the end of its work. At RCOE, we were experimenting with the thermal imaging camera – we were looking for any spontaneous combustion or any heating in the ribs. The other key thing we were experimenting with was the bolts - their support density is absolutely critical as they have to be exactly as per the plan signed off by the Mine Manager.

The bolts are designed by a geotechnical engineer and the hover map and drone technology has the ability to preload it with the support pattern. It can then travel at very high speeds and come back and give you a plan of which bolts are out of sequence and not according to the plan.”

Find out how it went in the video below.