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Quarry Keeps Finding New Savings with Drone Data

Getting stockpiles surveyed for volume to complete Vista’s month-end reconciliations was a time-consuming routine. Surveyors could deliver data on the quarry’s 40 or more acres of stockpiles in about five days. The company bought their…

Extracting value – using drones to survey quarries

Aidan O’Connor, the managing director of ASM Ireland, is one of the country’s most knowledgeable commercial drone operators, with particularly extensive experience in the field of quarry surveying. Waypoint caught up with Aidan to blast…

UAVs are great – but which one’s for you?

From stockpile inventory management to volume measurements planning and assets inspections to topographical mapping, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are changing the way we work. By observing from above, UAVs can get more accurate results, and…