GPS for underground operations - great potential for controlling block caves, saving trapped miners and machine automation »
Posted on June 10th, 2008 by John Chadwick
Today (June 10) at the MassMin conference in Lulea, Sweden, Greg Baiden of Laurentian University, Canada (also Chief Technology Officer of Penguin Automated Systems) presented on a newly developed Underground Positioning System (UPS). The UPS has a range of some 2 km through rock and accuracy better than 3%. Mine trials are to be undertaken [...]
