Topography

AI-Assisted Drone Survey and 3D Terrain Modeling

Key Takeaways Baseline topographic survey and 3D terrain modelling are now largely drone/LiDAR-driven, with AI showing up in two distinct places: autonomous SLAM navigation during capture, and implicit-modelling interpolation once the data lands. Emesent …

Mine Geological Model

Key Takeaways Leapfrog Geo (Seequent), Micromine, and Datamine are the established platforms for building the mine geological model. Leapfrog’s implicit modelling engine uses radial basis function (RBF) interpolation — an ML-adjacent mathematical technique — to build 3D geological surfaces …