Towards the development of a low cost airborne sensing system to monitor dust particles after blasting at open-pit mine sites

Sensors

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 19703-19723

  Alvarado, Miguel ^a   Gonzalez, Felipe ^b   Fletcher, Andrew ^a   Doshi, Ashray ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Blasting; Fixed wing UAV; Monitoring; Optical sensor; PM10; Quadcopter

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; BLASTING; DATA ACQUISITION; DUST; FIXED WINGS; OPEN PIT MINING; OPTICAL CORRELATION; OPTICAL SENSORS; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

DUST PARTICLE; FIXED-WING UAV; INTEGRAL PART; LOW-COSTS; MINE SITE; OPEN PIT; PIT MINES; PM10; QUADCOPTER; SENSING SYSTEMS;

CALIBRATION;

EID: 84939219369     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s150819667     Document Type: Article

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