Southern Mapping aerial surveys and geospatial solutions
Established in 2006, Southern Mapping Company provides aerial light detection and ranging, or LiDAR, surveys and geospatial solutions to clients in Africa. The company created a watershed moment in the history of surveying in Africa when it became the first independently owned LiDAR company on the continent.
To date, Southern Mapping Company has surveyed a thousand projects in over 40 countries, offering a wide variety of services and bespoke solutions to the mining industry.
Southern Mapping surveys mine pits and stockpiles to provide a regular and rapid turnaround of accurate information about stockpile volumes. The size of a mine’s stockpile represents potential income and measuring these waste dumps provides an understanding of a mine’s profitability.
In addition, the company provides solutions for environmental and mine rehabilitation monitoring, through the use of high resolution multispectral satellites and airborne, mounted hyperspectral and LiDAR camera systems.Using imagery from the short wave, infrared wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum, it is possible to map vegetation and the health status of plants. By mapping the relative chlorophyll content in rehabilitated sites, stressed zones can be identified and the success of rehabilitation projects can be assessed.
Southern Mapping also provides a phased, remote-sensing approach to mapping for mineral exploration. Multispectral satellite imagery and digital elevation model, or DEM, data is used in early exploration phases to develop broad spectrally-based geological, mineralogical and structural maps, as well as potential target zones.
Opencast pits, shafts, roads, plants, dams, dump sites and infrastructure associated with mines require careful planning and detailed design. Southern Mapping’s high-accuracy, airborne LiDAR surveys provide the elevation models, above ground feature information and high resolution orthoimagery necessary to achieve this.
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