MINING, CONSTRUCTION AND SURVEY USING UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEMS

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1 MINING, CONSTRUCTION AND SURVEY USING UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEMS Introducing White Knight UAS White Knight Unmanned Aerial Systems (White Knight UAS) is a professional, Canberra-based aviation company that provides industry leading and innovative services using unmanned aerial systems (UAS), colloquially known as drones. We operate a range of aircraft that carry normal (electrooptic) video and digital cameras, as well as highly specialized cameras such as thermal and infrared. White Knight UAS is the only CASA certified UAS operator in the ACT and we specialize in providing innovative aerial imagery for environmental monitoring and survey, stockpile and subsidence survey, asset and infrastructure monitoring, project tracking, marketing, and survey data acquisition. Safer, cheaper and better resolution than traditional manned aircraft Services Offered Construction Updates Survey quality data for Surface Planning Cut to Fill Calculations Excavated Quantities Stockpile Volumes Aerial Utilities Inspections Environmental Baselining Googong Township, NSW Construction Update Environmental Monitoring

2 Civil Engineering and Survey Data collection for cut-to-fill, surface planning, extracted quantities and stockpile volume calculations is both costly and time consuming. White Knight UAS takes a fraction of the time and cost of traditional ground based methods. In as little as an hour of flight time, and working from outside the physical mining or construction environment, we can we can gather data for your/our surveyors to calculate volumes without interrupting your production or construction processes. We can gather a full site points cloud at specific time intervals giving snapshots of all works activities in progress allowing for the tracking of materials movement. Data accuracy has been independently verified. Results in the order of 50mm can be achieved. A new way of producing survey quality data Orthophotographs are built from hundreds of individual photos coupled with complex flight data to form a highly accurate digital surface model. Digital Terrain Model from UAS (120m altitude) By overlaying the orthophotograph with the digital surface model, we can produce 3D models of the stock piles and mined areas. 3D Stockpile Model developed from Orthophoto and DTM We can also use our specialist software to determine stockpile volumes, or the data can be provided to your staff for quality assurance or to your surveyors for their calculations. Stockpile Volume Calculation Survey personnel are only onsite once a year to check our survey control points. Generating end of month volume data was never safer or cheaper!

3 Survey grade data without impacting production Using our remotely piloted UAS, White Knight UAS can produce: Digital Terrain Models (DTM) Positionally accurate orthophotos and orthomosaics 3D Rendered images. Because we control our aircraft remotely from outside the target site, we will not impact on your production and we remove the OH&S risks that come with on-site surveyors. With our data, your (or our) surveyors can: Undertake Site Investigation, Selection and Planning Determine Cut-to-Fill volumes Digital Terrain Model from UAS (120m altitude) John Gorton Drive, Molonglo ACT Survey Quality Data Using our UAS, we produce hundreds of thousands of individual points which provides a huge data point cloud of the entire physical terrain rather than the individual points of measurement used in ground-based survey approaches. With accuracy independently verified to around 50mm (depending on the surface type), the increased detail provided by our data cloud provides far greater accuracy when calculating surface volumes used to track cut-to-fill volumes, extracted quantities, surface subsidence and stockpile volumes. We deliver increased quality and accuracy for surface calculations, but our systems are faster, cheaper and safer than traditional survey. Calculate Extracted Quantities and Stockpile Volumes Undertake Subsidence monitoring. Free your surveyors to do complex work Civil Engineering Projects: With aerial mapping, survey data collected for monthly volumes can be obtained in a fraction of the time and cost it would traditionally take, thus freeing up your surveyors to do higher priority and more productive tasks.

4 Making the inaccessible accessible White Knight UAS systems can be operated remotely so we can go places which traditionally would be either inaccessible or would take some time and effort to inspect. We can fly over blackberry brambles, gullies and marshes and deliver high quality video and stills photography to inform your analysis in a fraction of the time it would take on foot. High Resolution Images Identify Invasive Species (Note Unedited Low Hover Image Inset) Environmental Management We work with you to provide detailed images and video to support any number of environmental activities and projects: Our fixed wing aircraft can produce orthomosaics (high definition pictures stitched together seamlessly) of around one square kilometer per flight. And, in as little as 10 minutes, we can be back in the air again. Pre-project commencement environmental baselines Post-storm waterways damage assessment Rehabilitation monitoring Invasive species damage assessment Mapping of hiking trails, fire fighting trails. Early identification and detection of algal blooms Remote area invasive species weed control (currently under investigation). Watercourse Mapping High quality inspections in a fraction of the time it would take on foot Orthomosaics allow you to quickly inspect large tracts of land

5 Orthomosaic Photo from UAS (125m altitude) John Gorton Drive, Molonglo ACT Tracking Environmental & Construction Projects Environmental regulations are becoming more stringent and our clients stakeholders are asking to be kept informed of the progress on their projects. With White Knight UAS low altitude aerial photography, you can have fantastic before, during and after shots of the entire planning and construction process. Your current and future clients can truly appreciate your work and feel engaged with your progress; and it never hurts to keep the government up to date with your environmental monitoring and mitigation strategies. Video adds a new Dimension Not only can we document your progress with high resolution digital photos, but we can also provide you with high resolution video of your site. Together, these two views can be used in unique and novel ways such as artist renderings of your future vision or as interactive time lapse media.

6 We support inspections of all high risk infrastructure Power Transmission: Power lines, HV towers Insulators Water Storage Dam walls Outlet towers Spill ways Penstock Electricity Generation Solar farms including thermographic testing Wind farm Infrastructure Wind Turbine Blade Inspection Other Infrastructure: Bridge Inspections Oil and Gas Pipelines Infrastructure & Asset Management We assist inspections by producing high resolution aerial images of infrastructure too high risk for manned aviation, or environmentally or culturally sensitive for ground based inspection. UAS inspections are better than traditional aerial or ground-based methods because: Higher quality data and images than ground inspections or manned aircraft With no crew on-board, we can safely fly closer to infrastructure We use thermal imaging and infrared cameras to support thermographic testing Reduced outages as inspections take place while asset is live Reduced costs by minimising downtime Reduced cost compared with aeroplane hire, pilot and photographer Negligible OH&S impacts and no working at heights issues Increased safety due to further distance from the lines than the typical hand held camera inspection. Reduced downtime saves money Unlike traditional rope access or helicopter inspection methods, using White Knight UAS means that your expensive infrastructure can be kept operational during the inspection. Reduced risk, better information, no downtime Our aircraft can get close to take high definition video and stills

7 Our Professionalism Sets Us Apart The aviation industry is heavily regulated for safety reasons. White Knight UAS is a professional aviation company and like all aviation companies, whether they be manned or unmanned, we have to undergo extensive testing and validation with the country s civil aviation safety regulator, the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA). White Knight UAS was required to prove to CASA that it is suitably qualified and experienced as an aviation company, and that the company has suitable operational, maintenance and safety procedures in place to be able to operate the company s aircraft without risk to other airspace users, people on the ground or their property. Key position holders must meet and maintain certain standards set by CASA. CASA analyses and tests our personnel and procedures prior to issuing an Unmanned Operators Certificate. Without this Certificate, we could not legally operate the UAS. White Knight UAS was the first Canberra based UAS operator, and currently the only, Canberra-based holder of a CASA Unmanned Operators Certificate. Contact Us White Knight UAS Po Box 898 Mitchell ACT 2911 Phone: Visit us on the web at Other UAS operators based in Canberra are operating illegally and are uninsured for their operation White Knight UAS Flight Controllers, or the UAS pilots if you like, are licensed by CASA as UAS Controller's. This is the UAS equivalent of a Pilot's license and involves both theoretical aviation knowledge as well as practical flight examinations. Without this certificate, a Flight Controller is not legally allowed to control the UAS for commercial purposes. Unlike unlicensed or rogue UAS operators, White Knight UAS takes licensing, aircraft maintenance and quality outputs very seriously. We believe that this professionalism sets us apart from other licensed and unlicensed UAS operators. We are better for the community! Lower noise and visual profile than manned aircraft Safer to bystanders and property Electric batteries = Lower Greenhouse Gas Emissions We are safer than manned aircraft CASA licensed controllers CASA certified professional aviation company No pilot or photographer onboard risking their safety Our mapping aircraft weighs 630g (not 700 kg) Our mapping aircraft is made out of foam, not metal Mapping aircraft s propeller at the back posing minimal danger Don t carry large amounts of highly flammable fuel White Knight Unmanned Aerial Systems Pty Ltd. All rights reserved. ABN