Introduction Volumetric analysis is incredibly important to mining operations. Utilizing UAS technology to assess mine pile volumes is both cost effective and efficient. Having more frequent volume analysis on mine operation's stockpiles would allow companies to save money, while improving overall business. This lab's intention is to provide an example of how valuable UAS data is in assessing volumes of piles at Litchfield mine. There are three piles that will be assessed both in Pix4D and ESRI's ArcMap using a variety of volumetric analysis. Methods In Pix4D, the first step is to open a merged mine flight project. This project already has GCPs added, so the spatial analysis will be highly accurate. Three new volume objects are added to the imagery around different piles. Once this is done, the volumes are calculated by simply pressing calculate (Figure 1). Figure 1: The three objects are displayed with numbers corresponding to the volumes on the left. ...
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