MINING
Slope Stability Monitoring
Mining activities are related to several anthropic and geophysical phenomena which tend to modify ground stability, such as changes in rocks due to the mining activity itself, heavy vehicles traffic, tensions of the faults and slopes wash in tailings dams, among others.
Bingham Canyon Mine, 2013
All of these, lead to the necessity of ongoing monitoring to set early warnings in order to prevent possible accidents which may be a risk for people, environment and mining operation.
Nevertheless, high-precision measurements over time, result expensive and, in some cases, logistically difficult to obtain. However, differential interferometry (DInSAR) is an excellent alternative which allows to measure ground displacement with centimetric and sub-centimetric Precision at 8 days intervals in the case of the SAOCOM® satellite constellation.
