University of Queensland drone experts have played a key role in delivering new aerial imaging technology which the European Union has touted as a gamechanger for mineral exploration.
Geoscience and remote sensing researchers from UQ’s Sustainable Minerals Institute (SMI) were part of the European-led m4mining consortium that delivered a hyperspectral imaging system capable of mapping surface patterns of minerals, soils, and plants from the air in real time, aiding exploration and mining activities.
UQ Drone Collaborative Research Platform lead Associate Professor Steve Micklethwaite said the drone-mounted imaging system harnessed remote sensing technology and complex physics to provide users a near-instant 3D mesh of a survey area, and clues as to what might lay underground.
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