The American Surveyor magazine has published an article on 3DM Analyst Mine Mapping Suite and how it compares to laser scanning, as well as a PDF of the original article as it appeared in the March/April 2010 edition of Geomatics World.
ADAM is proud to sponsor the 7th Large Open Pit Conference to be held on the 27th and 28th of July, 2010, in Perth, Western Australia. ADAM will also be exhibiting in booth 5.
ADAM will be in booth 13 at the 44th U.S. Rock Mechanics Symposium/5th US-Canada Rock Mechanics Symposium from the 27th of June to the 30th of June, 2010, in Salt Lake City, Utah.
ADAM is proud to sponsor the Australasian Mine Surveying Convention to be held from the 12th to the 14th of August, 2009, in Perth, Western Australia. ADAM will also be exhibiting in booth 2.
ADAM will be in booth 2 at the 43rd U.S. Rock Mechanics Symposium/4th US-Canada Rock Mechanics Symposium from the 28th of June to the 1st of July, 2009, in Asheville, North Carolina.
ADAM will present a paper entitled "Using 3DM Analyst Mine Mapping Suite for Slope Stability — Case Studies" at the Geotechnical Engineering for Open Pit Mines forum held in Brisbane, Queensland, from the 9th to the 11th of June, 2009.
ADAM will be exhibiting at the 3rd US-Canada Rock Mechanics Symposium from the 9th to the 15th of May, 2009, in Toronto, Canada.
ADAM is proud to sponsor SHIRMS 2008, the 1st Southern Hemisphere International Rock Mechanics Symposium to be held from the 16th to the 19th of September, 2008, in Perth, Western Australia. ADAM will also be exhibiting in booth 14.
ADAM will be in booth 18 at the 42nd U.S. Rock Mechanics Symposium/2nd US-Canada Rock Mechanics Symposium from 29th June to 2nd July, 2008. We will also be participating in the "Laser and Photogrammetric Methods for Rock Tunnel Characterization" workshop to be held on the 28th and 29th of June as part of the symposium, demonstrating our underground mapping system in action!
ADAM will present a paper entitled "Using 3DM Analyst Mine Mapping Suite for Slope Stability" at the Slope Monitoring and Instrumentation Workshop on the 8th of May, 2008.
ADAM will be in booth 250-3 at EXPOMIN 2008 in Chile from the 15th to the 18th of April, 2008. We will also be giving a presentation entitled "Aerial and Terrestrial Photogrammetry in Geologic and Geotechnical Mapping and Automated Surveying" at 1 PM on the 16th — contact us for details!
ADAM will be in booth 35 at the Ozmine 2008 Exhibition and Conference in Jakarta on the 19th and 20th of February, 2008!
Position Magazine's December/January 2008 edition includes an article ADAM Technology wrote on using UAVs in conjunction with 3DM Analyst Mine Mapping Suite.
ADAM will be in booth 10 at the 2007 International Symposium on Rock Slope Stability in Open Pit Mining and Civil Engineering in Perth from the 12th to the 14st of September, 2007, as well as participating in the Slope Monitoring Forum on the 11th, discussing how 3DM Analyst Mine Mapping Suite can be used for both slope monitoring and analysis!
Added a page summarising and linking to various independent reports on 3DM Analyst Mine Mapping Suite.
Added a page on Rotomotion's UAVs and how they can be used for aerial mapping and serveillance applications.
Added a page describing how 3DM Analyst can be used for Heritage Mapping and Archaeology.
Added a page showing the use of 3DM Analyst Mine Mapping Suite for Underground Mining.
ADAM will be running three one-day courses at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver from Friday, the 1st of June to Sunday, the 3rd of June, immediately after the Canada-U.S. Rock Mechanics Symposium. Contact ADAM Technology to register while spaces are still available!
ADAM will be in booth 6 at the 1st Canada-U.S. Rock Mechanics Symposium in Vancouver from the 27th to the 31st of May, 2007, as well as participating in the "Workshop on Laser Scanning & Photogrammetry Methods for Rock Engineering" workshop on the 26th and 27th. Following the success of the Golden Rocks 2006 workshop we strongly encourage anyone interested to book early!
Mark Mudge from Cultural Heritage Imaging in San Francisco presented a paper entitled "Fast, Accurate, Simple to Use, Textured Point Cloud Generation for Cultural Heritage Documentation" at the Computer Applications in Archaeology 2007 Conference in Berlin from April 2–6, 2007. The presentation was co-authored by Mark Mudge, Neffra Matthews and Tom Noble from the US Bureau of Land Management's National Science and Technology Center, and Jason Birch from ADAM Technology, and described how 3DM Analyst is able to generate 3D models of historical artifacts in minutes, accurate to tens of microns if desired, using nothing more than a standard digital camera and a PC. Sample projects will be added to our website soon!
ADAM will be in stand 48 at Austmine 2007 on the 12th and 13th of February demonstrating 3DM Analyst Mine Mapping Suite and a Rotomotion SR-20 UAV! See the exhibitions page for details.
ADAM is pleased to announce that it has been appointed the Australian distributor for Rotomotion's range of autonomous UAVs! With onboard GPS for navigation, these UAVs are capable of carrying a digital camera to predefined locations and capturing images fully autonomously — ideal for low-cost aerial mapping! ADAM plans to take a UAV around to various mine sites over the next few months to show the system in action — contact us for details.
Added a Tutorial showing how to use the new geotech support in 3DM Analyst to digitise joints.
Updated the exhibitions page with links to the paper and presentation ADAM Technology gave at Golden Rocks 2006.
Updated the 3DM Analyst homepage to include more details on sample applications and product options.
ADAM Technology will be participating in the "Laser and Photogrammetric Methods for Rock Face Characterization" workshop at the Golden Rocks 2006 conference in Golden, Colorado, on the 17th and 18th of June, 2006! See the exhibitions page for details.
Added a 24 megapixel merged image and a 33 megapixel merged image representing a single vertical strip of four images and a single horizontal strip of four images, respectively, from one of our customers' mine pits. 27 images were captured from each of two locations approximately 680m away from the pit wall with a Nikon D1x and 135mm lens, capturing an area of approximately 500m x 250m of pit wall with a pixel size of 3cm x 3cm on the ground. Because 3DM CalibCam was being used for orientations, control points could be placed safely around the top of the pit thereby avoiding the need to place them inside the pit itself, without sacrificing accuracy. Seven control points in total were used, giving quite a high level of redundancy. (Only one was technically necessary.) The resulting 3D Images were exported to VULCAN for geotechnical analysis.
Asian Surveying and Mapping has an article on a trial we conducted with one of our customers, using 3DM Analyst and 3DM CalibCam to process images captured from a helicopter using an EOS 300D, Canon's cheapest digital SLR!
Added a case study on the use of 3DM Analyst and 3DM CalibCam at BMA Coal in Queensland, Australia. This article also appears in the February edition of World Coal magazine.
Added the full resolution version of the merged image that appears in the World Coal magazine article — right-click on the link and select "Save target as..." (or similar) to save the image on your hard disk, then view it in Photoshop or some other image processing package. This 27 megapixel image is a real working image that was used for geotechnical analysis by the Geotechnical Services Group of BMA Coal's Central Queensland Office. It consists of four images captured from 220m away with a 50mm lens, covering approximately 300m of pit wall. The pixel size on the ground is approximately 4cm x 4cm, and two control points were used (in addition to two camera stations) for registering the data in 3D. (The control points can be seen on the top of the wall.) The images were corrected, colour balanced, and merged using a new feature of the upcoming version 2.2 release of 3DM CalibCam, currently in testing by all existing 3DM CalibCam users.
Added new flyers for 3DM Analyst and 3DM CalibCam.
Added a document outlining ADAM Technology’s recommendations for image capturing using 3DM Analyst and 3DM CalibCam in a mining environment.
Added an exhibitions page showing upcoming exhibits as well as images of past exhibits.
Added a camera recommendations page to give some general indications as to which cameras are best to use with 3DM Analyst. Feel free to contact us for specific recommendations that take into account your individual requirements!
Added a performance comparison page to show how 3DM Analyst performs on different CPUs.
3DM Analyst 2.1a has been released! Key new features include:
All features (including breaklines) can now be digitised directly in the 3D View!
3D images (surface + texture) can now be exported directly into Maptek's Vulcan 3D modelling and mine planning software
Dip and dip direction is now reported and depicted in the 3D View
A stand-alone DTM generator for batch processing of DTMs has been added.
This upgrade is being shipped to all 3DM Analyst 2.0 customers with a current ADAMcare Software Support Agreements. Check the Release Notes for details of the changes in this release.
3DM CalibCam 2.1a has been released! This block adjustment package significantly enhances the ability of 3DM Analyst to work in environments where high accuracy is required but placing control is difficult.
ADAM's Goonyella Trial Report has been released! This is an abridged version of the report ADAM Technology compiled after the extensive trial held at BMA Coal's Goonyella coal mine in March of this year. As a result of the trial, BMA Coal have purchased both 3DM Analyst and 3DM CalibCam for use in pit wall mapping.
Added a sample projects page for 3DM Analyst. Contact us for a free viewer program allowing you to view the samples in 3D.
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