Automated Methods
In recent years an underground geographic positioning technology called HORTA has been utilized in the mining industry. The technology utilizes a gyroscope and an accelerometer to aid in 3D-position determination.
Such automated methods have provided a more than fifty-fold increase in underground surveying productivity with more accurate and finer detail maps as well.
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