Surface environments provide plenty of challenges where LiDAR data can provide valuable data to help answer questions and support your decisions. Potentially LiDAR data is best combined with other sensors to provide the best answer.
Old workings can be a challenge froma number ofperspectives. We have scanned old workings where the mine was expecting to break into these from underground and in other cases these old workings would potentially interact with a proposed open pit design.
Interestingly the scanning of these shafts can also give better understanding for geologists who are refining their drill programs and how the ore body undulates and changes direction over a short distance.