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I was reading on Autodesk's site a while ago about how they have software that can turn drone footage into 3d plots and use those plots to and estimate inventor
by ogre_codes 6y ago
I was reading on Autodesk's site a while ago about how they have software that can turn drone footage into 3d plots and use those plots to and estimate inventory based on the size of piles. They didn't explicitly say it was for coal, but after reading this "article/ thing" it seems like that is one of the biggest and most obvious use cases.
Also, as many others have pointed out, this site is bad. I wasn't quite sure initially this link was posted to call Autodesk's policies into light or as an example of terrible web design and scroll capture gone horribly wrong.
- abakker 6y agomost of that drone related survey work is actually for things like gravel, or earth-moving processes for construction. It is also not particularly difficult or novel, and solved well by several different packages. For construction, it is often used to estimate the amount of soil fill / drainage rock, etc that is used or needed or removed during site modifications. An example would be that if you need to haul away a lot of dirt, you pay per truck. Better estimating the amount of dirt means you don't accidentally book too few or too many trucks, this saves cost both in timing - avoiding delays, and in budgeting.
- mediaman 6y agoAbsolutely correct. Coal is such a tiny, tiny portion of the "we need to figure out how much stuff is in this pile" market. Companies need that information both to keep their books in order (what's the dollar value of our inventory of gravel?) or to know whether they have adequate or excess supply of materials for their operations (do we need to slow down our procurement of sand?). There are several companies in the market that use either drone footage or in some cases just a phone camera to estimate volumes of piles of stuff.