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Stockpiles
Stockpiles, tailing piles, and other large earth works used in bulk material handling are an important part of our landscape in mining, shipping, refining and manufacturing.
Typical measurements of stockpiles are volume, heights and profiles. Measuring the surface of a stockpile with a dense grid of points and a triangulated mesh provides suitable input for these tasks.
Measuring stockpiles has been labor and time intensive. No longer. With a camera and a high vantage point (tower, aircraft, or remote control craft) you can now obtain accurate surface models of your stock pile inexpensively and quickly.
 This stockpile was photographed with a Canon EOS 1DS mark II and
50mm Leica lens from a Cesna 172 aeroplane at approx. 300 meters.
It was a test of making volume measurement and it succeeded very well. This screen shot shows the stockpile's contours (on top of both shaded and textured models), as well as the volume above the ground plane in the software's Measure window.
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 This animation depicts the shaded TIN model of the stockpile along with the computed contours. All generated in PhotoModeler Scanner from two aerial photos.
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