Mine Monitoring

Silviculture and Forestry Monitoring: Using Earth Observation to Shape the Future of Commercial Forestry

Silviculture is essential to commercial forestry, but when paired with Earth Observation and GIS, it becomes a powerful tool for precision forestry monitoring and sustainable forest management. Swift Geospatial helps forestry teams make better decisions, track regeneration, and ensure long-term forest health across Africa. Let me know if you'd like a shorter version for newsletter previews or social sharing.

2025-05-22T11:17:11+00:00Innovation, Mine Monitoring, Mining|
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Watching the Wall: Why Tailings Storage Facility Monitoring Can’t Be an Afterthought

Tailings Storage Facilities (TSFs) are among the most critical, and potentially dangerous, structures in mining. With several major disasters in recent history, mine owners must prioritise TSF monitoring to protect lives, land, and operations. In this post, Swift Geospatial explores how satellite technology provides a smarter, safer, and more cost-effective alternative to traditional aerial flyovers, delivering early warnings and consistent data, no matter how remote the site.

2025-04-22T08:19:39+00:00Innovation, Mine Monitoring, Mining|
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Digging Deeper: How Remote Sensing Is Transforming Mining

Remote sensing for mining has reshaped how mine owners manage exploration, safety, and sustainability. From detecting illegal mining activity to monitoring environmental compliance and pit expansion, satellite data and geospatial analysis offer unparalleled visibility, without ever setting foot on site. Learn how Swift Geospatial helps mining operations across Africa stay compliant, efficient, and ahead of the curve.

2025-04-14T12:38:57+00:00Change Detection, Mine Monitoring, Mining|
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Using SMART Technology To Monitor Mines

Using the best satellite imagery technology currently has to offer, Swift Geospatial can assist with cost-effective, time-saving strategies, including disaster prevention. In this article we focus on monitoring for mine management and how our high quality imagery empowers one not only for decision making purposes; but also to detect - with immediate effect - if any risks or triggers are activated as and when they happen.

2021-09-14T12:41:01+00:00Innovation, Mine Monitoring, Mining, Swift News|
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Smart disaster prevention: monitoring your mine’s Tailing Storage Facility (TSF)

Monitoring your mine’s Tailings Storage Facility (TSF) is not merely a legal requirement, but a life or death responsibility. After all, the horrific (and fairly recent) case studies of TSF mismanagement catastrophes bear witness to the paramount importance thereof. Enter Swift Geospatial’s innovative methodology for TSF monitoring. Using the latest, most streamlined, high resolution and cloud-free satellite imagery technology available to date; time-savvy mining managers may remotely check their tailings dam status on a weekly basis.

2021-09-14T10:50:06+00:00Innovation, Mine Monitoring, Mining, Swift News|
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TSF Monitoring

With a global move to tighten the current regulations around mine tailings monitoring and disaster prevention, mining houses are searching for methods to assist in a proactive monitoring solution which not only provide insight into the tailing dams but can greatly assist the general mine manager in a range of ongoing monitoring aspects.

2021-10-26T10:37:17+00:00Conservation, Innovation, Mine Monitoring, Swift News|
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