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Automatic 3D fragmentation analysis from drone imagery

Presentation · May 2021

DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.26333.74729

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Short Webinar
Automatic 3D fragmentation analysis
from drone imagery
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 Motivation = Blast Optimization
Objective
3D Fragmentation Analysis Quantification
Crucial Step! Blast Design

Volumetrics Rock Mass Characterization

KPI tracking
Swelling
1,48

1,46

1,44

1,42

1,4

1,38

1,36

1,34

1,32

1,3
Fragmentation analysis from images

Important steps
 Recognition: Delineation of particles
 Sizing: Assigning physical dimension
Fragmentation analysis from 2D images

Delineation
 2D image analysis gets confused at edges that are not particle borders
 e.g. from contours/shadows or structure (texture)
  wrong particle delineation
  significant user intervention
How does 3D improve?

Delineation
 improves tremendously by including 3D information
 Shape less error-prone on shadows / structures

 Use 2D for refinements and small particles

How does 3D improve?

Sizing
 Different definitions for size possible
 e.g. largest diameter
 consideration of shape,
e.g. by ratios of diameters

 We fit an ellipsoid in 3D and take the

medium axis
 emulates sieving
Procedure

 1. Fly the drone

 2. Generate the 3D model
 3. Run the fragmentation analysis
1. Drone flight

 75-80% overlap
 interactive or
 pre-programmed
flight path
 normal GPS
sufficient
2. Model generation

 No image upload
required
 ca. 200 images/h
on a laptop
3. Fragmentation analysis
Interactive experience
Challenges / Characteristics

 Shadows challenging but manageable

 Extreme shadows: adapt drone flight (see next webinar)
 Only the visible surface assessible
 Analysis of entire muck pile
 Hundreds of thousands of
individual measurements
 Scale inherently included
 No GCPs required
Accuracy

 Model accuracy
 Scale is of prime importance

 Positional accuracy
 Not so important here

 Delineation
 Visual inspection

 Sizing Diagrammtitel
120

 Audited with ground truth from 100

lab scale testing and 80

sieved data from quarry blast 60

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Datenreihen1 Datenreihen2 Datenreihen3 Datenreihen4 Datenreihen5 Datenreihen6 Blast 1 Blast 3 Blast 4

Other applications

 Debris flows
 Dams
 Underground
 …
Q&A
Inquiries

inquiry@3gsm.at

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Next short webinar

 Generating 3D models in proper quality for 3D fragmentation analysis
 Drone flight
 Image resolution
May 20, 2021
 Referencing 15:30 CEST
 3D model generation hints 09:30 EST
Short Webinar
Automatic 3D fragmentation analysis
from drone imagery
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