Exhibitions and Workshops

For a first-hand look at ADAM Technology's 3DM Analyst and 3DM CalibCam software in action, please come and see us at the following events! Feel free to bring along your own images for a demonstration of how the software works. (Contact us for instructions on how to capture the images.)

SHIRMS 2008

ADAM is proud to sponsor SHIRMS 2008, the 1st Southern Hemisphere International Rock Mechanics Symposium to be held from the 16^th to the 19^th of September, 2008, in Perth, Western Australia. ADAM will also be exhibiting in booth 14.

2nd US-Canada Rock Mechanics Symposium

ADAM will be in booth 18 at the 42^nd U.S. Rock Mechanics Symposium/2^nd US-Canada Rock Mechanics Symposium from 29^th June to 2^nd July, 2008. We will also be participating in the "Laser and Photogrammetric Methods for Rock Tunnel Characterization" workshop to be held on the 28^th and 29^th of June as part of the symposium, demonstrating our underground mapping system in action!

Geotechnical Engineering for Open Pit Mines

ADAM presented a paper entitled "Using 3DM Analyst Mine Mapping Suite for Slope Stability" at the Slope Monitoring and Instrumentation Workshop on the 8^th of May, 2008.

EXPOMIN 2008

ADAM was in booth 250-3 at EXPOMIN 2008 in Chile from the 15^th to the 18^th of April, 2008 and gave a presentation entitled "Aerial and Terrestrial Photogrammetry in Geologic and Geotechnical Mapping and Automated Surveying" on the 16^th.

Ozmine 2008 Exhibition and Conference

ADAM was in booth 35 at the Ozmine 2008 Exhibition and Conference in Jakarta on the 19^th and 20^th of February, 2008.

Slope Stability 07

ADAM was in booth 10 at the 2007 International Symposium on Rock Slope Stability in Open Pit Mining and Civil Engineering in Perth from the 12^th to the 14^st of September, 2007. We also participated in the Slope Monitoring Forum on the 11^th, discussing how 3DM Analyst Mine Mapping Suite can be used for both slope monitoring and analysis!

1st Canada-U.S. Rock Mechanics Symposium

ADAM was in booth 6 at the 1st Canada-U.S. Rock Mechanics Symposium in Vancouver from the 27^th to the 31^st of May, 2007. We also participated in the "Workshop on Laser Scanning & Photogrammetry Methods for Rock Engineering" workshop on the 26^th and 27^th, which was an excellent opportunity for professionals to see all the latest systems on offer first-hand.

Austmine 2007

ADAM was in stand 48 on the 12^th and 13^th of February 2007 demonstrating 3DM Analyst Mine Mapping Suite and a Rotomotion SR-20 UAV as well as our new underground mapping equipment!

Goldfields Mining Expo 2006

ADAM was in booth 1081 in the Kalgoorlie Pavillion from the 24^th to the 26^th of October demonstrating 3DM Analyst Mine Mapping Suite and a Rotomotion SR-20 UAV. As expected, the UAV attracted a lot of interest! Thanks to all who dropped by for a chat!

Golden Rocks 2006

ADAM participated in the "Laser and Photogrammetric Methods for Rock Face Characterization" workshop at the Golden Rocks 2006 conference in Golden, Colorado, on the 17^th and 18^th of June, 2006.

We explored the use of 3DM Analyst for face mapping and covered the following topics:

The principals of photogrammetry, and how those principles are used during planning to determine the expected accuracy at different ranges with different camera and lens combinations.
The different image capturing techniques that can be used with the software and the trade-offs associated with each.
The importance of camera calibration and its effect on the results, why each camera and lens combination needs to be calibrated individually, and the facilities in the software for performing and evaluating a calibration.
Problems that are encountered in practice using digital photogrammetry and how to address them.
Techniques for evaluating the quality of generated data.
Exporting data into other systems.

As part of the two-day workshop participants were taken on a field trip to capture images of the rock face, which we then used to create an accurate 3D model by processing them in 3DM Analyst Mine Mapping Suite! Two different image capturing techniques were shown — strips and fans — which each required just two minutes of field time to capture. Loading the images into the software, digitising control points, automatically generating relative-only points, and generating DTMs of the entire rock face took just 15 minutes — or the same period of time one of the participants took to perform just one laser scan of about 1/5^th of the rock face!

ADAM's workshop presentation and associated paper are both available for download: