InTouch provides a new intuitive way to look at your geological and mining information. It uses Virtual Reality modeling with connections to external data sources to provide a realistic and simple visual method of examining and navigating through all your data. Uses include:
- Geological data immersion - unlock the full value of your geological data with full stereovision immersion right there on your desktop. Display fault planes, geophysical grids, geological interpretations, structural surface models, grade surface models, drillholes and terrain surfaces, then color and texture the objects to reveal their hidden secrets.
- Real world data connection - every object in the virtual world can be linked to other documents and programs accessible on the local network, company intranet or worldwide internet. You can click on say a drillhole to display a drill log or section plot, or on a blast markup line to report the tonnes and grades, or step inside the mine office and click on the telephone to dial-up and upload the latest drilling results - the possibilities are endless and limited only by your imagination.
- Terrain navigation - jump into any vehicle and take it for a drive up the road, across country, or down the mine. Take a visitor or a company director on a virtual tour of your exploration project or minesite. Change the transparency of the terrain surface and peer down to see the orebody and pit design surface.
- Fly-thru's - drape an aerial photo over your terrain surface and fly around your mine. Swing down into the pit then dive below ground and fly right inside the orebody.
- Simulations - define haulage routes, then add trucks, shovels, draglines, drill rigs and service vehicles and watch the mine come to life.
Conventional 3D visualization programs do little more than spin the data around while you view it, whereas InTouch is a 3D immersion system which puts you right inside your data. The data links then give you access to as much detail about the objects as you want, or wish to publish, and enable easy access to plots, logs, reports and charts without specialist knowledge of where the data is stored, the format it is stored in or the programs used to create them - in other words, it puts everyone in touch with the project. And because none of the objects, or the linked information are stored inside the document, any changes to the data are automatically reflected in the world view.
InTouchGPS equipment tracking
Attach mobile equipment to dispatch/GPS system
Full VR immersion capabilities of InTouch
- Build virtual world models of operating pits
- Drape aerial photo on terrain model
- Link objects to external data (blast models, stockpile data, telemetry, assays, maps, sections, schedules…)
- Navigate on, above or below surface
Animated world provides accurate representation of real world activities eg plant movements
Click on any object to view status, statistics, reports, plans, charts, notes…
Display safety alerts and query
Actual vehicle movements are saved to a history file and can be replayed for analysis |
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