Identification and Assessment of an Active Pit Slope Instability
Introduction At an iron ore open pit mine in Southern Africa, a MSR Modular was deployed for safety critical monitoring of a pit slope above a production area. The MSR Halo, a Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) was deployed alongside the MSR Modular, a Real Aperture Radar (RAR) which was focussed on a specific area of […]
Back Scarp Monitoring of an Active Landslide
Introduction Above a small village in a mountainous area, rehabilitation work was undertaken to cut back and bench a ravelling natural slope. Beneath the rehabilitated area, based on visual assessments and after a number of rainfall events, continued sloughing of the mountainside face necessitated specialist monitoring utilising Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), MSR Halo. Portions of […]
Multiple Slope Instabilities
Introduction For an undisclosed location and commodity, an open pit slope was monitored for slope stability purposes and to identify areas of interest for assessment, to classify the rate of movement accumulation and to propose site calibrated alarm thresholds. An image of the pit slope and the live view of the displacement and average velocity […]