Establishing a successful pit slope monitoring database using Ground Based Radars (GBR)

There are a number of key, predefined steps that are required to set up a successful pit slope monitoring database. This paper describes selecting the radar location, configuring the database attributes, assigning scan regions, selecting area threshold parameters, understanding reference time and time windowing, as well as applying alarm thresholds.

Whilst applicable to Reutech Mining’s Real Aperture Radar (RAR) and, Multiple Input and Multiple Output (MIMO) Movement and Surveying Radars (MSR), these steps are also valid for other service providers. The theory and checklists provided can be adjusted to cater for any such systems. The importance of understating these concepts is vital to ensuring the quality of the data being captured by the system for subsequent assessment of pit slope stability.