Slope Stability Radar
The Slope Stability Radar (SSR) is the application for the monitoring of slope stability at open-cut mines. It is a system currently in use across the global mining and civil industries.
Slope stability is a critical safety and production issue for open-cut mines around the world to understand the probability of mine wall failures. Many fatalities have occurred in mining due to slope failure - sudden rock and wall collapses. Even when there is no injury, there is a high cost due to lost production and often damaged equipment. A common technique to determine slope stability is to monitor the small precursory movements, which occur prior to collapse.
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