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Thu, Jan 07, 2010

UAV's To Go Mining In Canada

VTOL UAV's Can Provide A More Accurate Picture Of What Is Underground

UAV producer AirStar is in communication with Altitude Inc. of Vancouver, Canada to supply UAVs and services for the mining industry. Altitude says it has developed a 3D analysis software for geological surveys that has been written for Vertical Take Off and Landing (VTOL) Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAVs) which provides an enhanced detail of stratification, faults and rock formations that are unattainable with fixed wing seismic surveys.

A challenge for environmental engineers has been the need for greater predictability regarding sensitive ground waters, faults and construction of roads, bridges and mining interests. Because wing surveys are flown at much higher altitudes and at higher speeds, AirStar says they are much less accurate than surveys conducted with VTOL UAV new technology.

"The current seismic imaging used by geologists and engineers in search of natural resources including oil and natural gas as well as mining have proven to be most predictable on flat ground surface geography," said Mundus Chairman Keith Michael Field. AirStar is a subsidiary of the Mundus Group.

"The AirStar UAV is able to slowly hover over a rugged terrain, which allows for a GPS satellite coordinate to lock onto a precision controlled flight path. While hovering and flying with closer proximity to the ground, the UAV can gradually descend into the ravines and steep cliffs, which when combined with Altitude's proprietary 3D analysis software, provide a dramatically enhanced image of what is beneath the cliffs and ravines," Fields continued.

AirStar and Altitude have agreed on their strategic common goals to provide Aerial Imagery & Data collection technologies to geological survey companies in search of natural resources in the Mining of minerals, gemstones, precious metals and natural gas & oil industries.

AirStar and Mundus previously formed Geo Logic as an Aerial delivery system and Green Technology provider with "Small footprint" aerial non-disruptive technologies, to the mining, natural gas and oil industries. Additional benefits that we provide are increased accuracy in the assessment and analysis of resources that safeguard against wasteful miscalculations and environmental destruction.

Critical analysis cannot be made in difficult to reach areas without aerial topography and seismic imagery data from a VTOL vertical takeoff and landing UAV unmanned air vehicle that can hover in one place with the ability to identify precise 3D details with GPS pin point accuracy of location and depth in a stratified cliffs and valleys that cannot be rendered from a moving fixed wing geological pass.

FMI: www.airstaruav.com 

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