3DM Analyst is the most powerful terrestrial photogrammetric package on the market.

Eric Kloosterman, Project Manager, Fugro

... the ADAM Technology software is more accurate, faster, more flexible, easier to use, more robust and more rapidly developing, provides better quality models, has better software support and requires less training.

BMA Coal, Goonyella Trial Report

I have used 3DM Analyst where no other technology was able to provide a solution.

Wayne Budarick, Chief Surveyor, Griffin Coal

Based on technical considerations of the trial results, ADAM Technology's 3DM Analyst plus CalibCam softwares provide the best solutions for BMA's highwall mapping.

BMA Coal, Goonyella Trial Report

I normally don't budget for ongoing support — instead, I do 'catch-up' purchases every two or three years. However, the quality of support we've had from ADAM Technology over the last 12 months has been really excellent, and so in this case I'm going to make an exception!

Dr. Jon Osborn, University of Tasmania

After using free software and testing other packages like Photoscan and Photomodeler 3DM Analyst is in a different league in terms of camera calibration, flexibility of application, meshing capabilities and provenancing of work flow.

Dr. Caradoc Peters, University of Plymouth

It is a joy to use and exciting to be able to say we are the first university and department in the UK to have it.

Dr. Caradoc Peters, University of Plymouth

After exhaustive testing of 3DM Analyst Mine Mapping Suite for building DTMs of coal mines in western Venezuela, we are convinced that the software provides reliable and accurate results in a fraction of the time required by traditional photogrammetry.

Mark Lander, Carto Sur C.A.

We believe this solution offers the same or better precision than aerial LIDAR and at much lower cost.

Mark Lander, Carto Sur C.A.

The system is an eminently practical solution for surveying mines in developing countries requiring nothing more complicated in the field than a quality digital camera and GPS receivers.

Mark Lander, Carto Sur C.A.

I had never done anything like this before and approached ADAM Technology for their advice on the best settings to use. I received more assistance than I could have expected, I was very impressed with the support.

Greg Little, Thiess Indonesia
Colourful DTM UAV in flight UAV pit contours Snowy DTM Snowy DTM contours Underground DTM Underground DTM contours

News

2021

2020

  • ADAM will be participating in the Hong Kong Construction Innovation and Technology Fund's COVID-safe virtual conference CITF ConTech 2020 from the 15th of September to the 13th of October, 2020, with a video presentation from our Sales and Marketing Manager Kevin Ha (in Cantonese with English subtitles) 2:30 PM Hong Kong time on the 15th of September followed by a live chat session in both English and Chinese with Kevin and Managing Director Jason Birch until 3:45 PM. (Click on "Technologies Sharing" and then "Advanced Design and Manufacturing Pty Ltd" to access our virtual booth.) Please join us and register now!

    建造業創新及科技基金 Construction Innovation and Technology Fund (CITF) ConTech 2020. 一齊體驗360°建造業創新科技領域www.citf2020.com!

  • In-house and onsite training are now available once again in Western Australia; however travel restrictions and quarantine requirements mean that they are only available to customers already within Western Australia. Online training remains available, as is phone and email support.

  • In light of recent developments with COVID-19 and the impending shutdown of non-essential services across the country, ADAM Technology will not be conducting in-house or onsite training from 23rd March until 30th April 2020, at which point the situation will be reviewed again.

    Online training is still available, as is phone and email support. ADAM staff are all able to successfully work from home so even during a total shutdown ADAM will still be able to continue operating.

    We appreciate your understanding in this unprecedented situation.

  • ADAM will be in booth 77 at AusIMM's Underground Operators Conference 2020 from the 25th to the 27th of March, 2020, in Perth. Update: Due to the COVID-19 pandemic this conference has been rescheduled to the 15th to the 17th of March, 2021.

2019

  • ADAM will be in booth 1 at AusIMM's International Mining Geology 2019 Conference from the 25th to the 26th of November, 2019, in Perth.

  • ADAM will be exibiting at LIFE 2019 and also presenting a talk entitled "Modern Photogrammetry and Computer Vision: Blurring the Boundaries". The talk will summarise some of the differences between the photogrammetry that surveyors may have studied as an undergraduate and modern photogrammetric systems and how they impact real-world applications of the technology.

  • ADAM will be presenting a talk entitled "Beyond the Black Box" at the SSSIWA & AIMS 2019 Mine Surveyors Seminar co-hosted by The Surveying & Spatial Sciences Institute and The Australian Institute of Mine Surveyors. The talk will open the black box of modern photogrammetry systems and explain some of their inner workings and the implications for practioners in the field.

  • ADAM will be in booth 13 at the 1st International Conference on Mining Geomechanical Risk from the 9th to the 11th of April, 2019, in Perth.

2018

  • ADAM is pleased to announce the appointment of John Godfrey as Sales and Account Manager. John has over a decade's worth of experience in the industry and will be running our Brisbane office.

  • ADAM will be presenting a talk entitled "Applications of photogrammetry in slope monitoring" at the Australian Centre for Geomechanics' "Instrumentation and Slope Monitoring Workshop" to be held in Perth, WA, on the 26th of October, 2018. Anyone interested in attending the workshop can download and complete the registration brochure and send it to the addresses provided.

  • ADAM will be in booth 513 at the 61st Annual Meeting of the AEG from the 15th to the 23rd of September, 2018, in San Francisco.

  • Leapfrog have published a very interesting case study on their website that shows how Leapfrog Geo is being combined with 3DM Analyst Mine Mapping Suite to quickly and efficiently produce structural geological models at Cowal Gold in New South Wales.

2017

  • ADAM will be in booth 15 at the Underground Mining Technology 2017 Conference from the 11th to the 13th of October, 2017, in Sudbury.

  • Surpac 6.8.0 has been officially released with support for fully textured DTMs exported from 3DM Analyst, as showcased in Dassault's GEOVIA User Conference Presentations featuring UAV-captured stockpile data and underground DTMs provided by ADAM Technology. This complements the Surpac dtm and str support already in 3DM Analyst that can be used to export other data. (Click on the thumbnails for the full resolution slides.)

3DM Analyst-generated stockpiles in Surpac
3DM Analyst-generated underground DTM in Surpac

2016

2015

  • ADAM will be in booth 2 at the International Seminar on Design Methods in Underground Mining from the 17th to the 19th of November, 2015, in Perth.

  • ADAM will be in booth 12 at the 58th Annual Meeting of the AEG from the 22nd to the 25th of September, 2015, in Pittsburgh.

  • ADAM will be in booth 17 at the Australian Institute of Mine Surveyors 2015 National Conference from the 12th to the 14th of August, 2015, in Perth. ADAM will also be presenting a talk entitled "Recent advances in UAV photogrammetry", looking at how recent enhancements to 3DM Analyst Mine Mapping Suite have increased both UAV project size and attainable accuracies by way of several case studies that show what is now possible even with off-the-shelf computer hardware. The program is available here.

  • ADAM will be in booth 9 at the Iron Ore 2015 Conference from the 13th to the 15th of July, 2015, in Perth.

  • ADAM is pleased to announce the appointment of Nathan Wasley as Client Services Manager. Nathan was Senior Cartographer at Whelans for the previous 11 years and brings 20 years' experience in Mapping and Cartography to the role.

2014

2013

2012

  • The Sydney Morning Herald has an article on UAVs that mentions ADAM Technology.

  • ADAM will be in booth 4 at the Eighth AusIMM Open Pit Operator's Conference 2012 on the 18th and 19th of September, 2012, in Perth.

  • Added a video to our YouTube channel and an accompanying blog post on the use of UAVs with 3DM Analyst Mine Mapping Suite, featuring video footage taken from a UAV and the entire process of transforming the captured images into DTMs.

  • iTnews has published the first of three articles on the use of UAVs at mine sites in Australia, featuring many images of our aircraft in operation as well as some images of the results.

    HELImetrex, one of ADAM Technology's customers, is also quoted heavily.

    The minesite featured in some of the images was originally using a laser scanner but has now been using UAVs for End-of-Month Crushed Ore Stockpile surveys instead for the last two years. Following the success of the UAV they have expanded its use from a single eight-minute flight over the COS once per month to 11 missions every month covering in excess of 8 km2 capturing pit walls, ROMs, the leach drain, block cave subsidence zone, and the COS.

    Prior to taking delivery of the UAV the site conducted a benchmark trial, doing a direct comparison with the laser scanner. This was complicated by the fact that the laser scanner took three hours to scan the stockpiles while the UAV images were captured in the space of three minutes, so some differences would be expected purely because of the movement of material during that time. In spite of that the results were within 0.3% of each other, and well within their acceptance criteria.

  • The June edition of Geoinformatics has an article on 3DM Analyst by Adam Spring that includes the following quote:

    "After using free software and testing other packages like Photoscan and Photomodeler 3DM Analyst is in a different league in terms of camera calibration, flexibility of application, meshing capabilities and provenancing of work flow. It is a joy to use and exciting to be able to say we are the first university and department in the UK to have it."

    Dr. Caradoc Peters, Head of Archaeology, University of Plymouth
  • ADAM will be in booth 31 at the ISPRS 2012 Congress from the 25th of August to the 1st of September, 2012, in Melbourne.

  • ADAM will be in booth 2 at the 46th U.S. Rock Mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium from the 24th to the 27th of June, 2012, in Chicago.

  • ADAM will be in booth 8 at the Narrow Vein Mining Conference 2012 from the 26th to the 27th of March, 2012, in Perth.

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Media Articles

"Look – Up in the Air, It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane… No It’s Just Another Drone",
LiDAR News, May 2013

"Here comes the Drone Age",
Sydney Morning Herald, September 2012

"Digital Photogrammetry and ADAM Technology",
Geoinformatics, June 2012

"Australian miners send drones to work",
"Australia turns to homegrown drones",
"Use cases for Australian mining UAVs", and
"Mining drones bridge workplace safety concerns",
iTnews, May 2012

"Laser Scanning versus Photogrammetry?",
American Surveyor, June 2010, and Geomatics World, March/April 2010

"The UAV Experience",
Position Magazine, December/January 2008

"Digital Cameras In Indonesia",
Asian Surveying and Mapping, September 2005