SIMON ARTHUR and DAVID ELDRIDGE In an effort to enhance mine safety, the management of Beaconsfield gold mine, at Beaconsfield in north eastern Tasmania, has purchased a new laser scanning system. It can rapidly scan the underground workings. What’s more, it is remote-controlled, so the operators are never exposed to danger. Historically, Beaconsfield’s mine surveying […]

WAL MAYR Airborne laser scanning is a relatively recent technology that has revolutionised the capture of terrain information. It involves the emission and measurement of laser pulses from an airborne scanner. Until recently, it was mainly used to capture large areas of relatively low-resolution digital terrain data. However, in the past few years a range […]

JONATHON POWERS The NSW Department of Lands is rolling out a $6 million electronic survey infrastructure. When completed, the entire state will be covered by a network of continuously operating reference stations that receive signals from navigation satellites.   The project will increase the absolute accuracy of the survey control network.   Currently, the survey […]