Picked up from another list:
This is pretty interesting; A robot has "spent 3 and half days mapping 2.2km of "underground drives, stopes
and access ramps", doing more than 80 scans per day and producing nearly 100 million data points. In less the a month the mining company was able to replace old mine drawings with accurate 3D data that "corresponded exactly with existing topographic aerial photographs and contour maps of the mine site"." Pretty cool! Here's some links: http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/17/laser-scanning-robot-creates-3d-map-of-silver-mine/ and http://www.directionsmag.com/press.releases/?duty=Show&id=22019&trv=1 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
