Mining

Monitoring Illegal Mining: Stopping Losses Before They Escalate

Swift Geospatial combines Planet’s daily 3m satellite imagery with advanced change detection technology to deliver near real-time monitoring of illegal mining. This solution enables early detection, rapid response, and reliable evidence for enforcement, protecting resources, reducing environmental damage, and cutting financial losses. Scalable for single sites to national coverage, it provides security companies, mining operators, and government agencies with the actionable intelligence needed to prevent illegal operations before they escalate.

2025-08-11T17:17:28+00:00Change Detection, Innovation, Mining, Swift News|
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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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Transforming Sustainability with Forest Carbon: Powered by Planet, Delivered by Swift Geospatial

Planet’s Forest Carbon is a first-of-its-kind satellite-powered solution that measures and monitors aboveground forest carbon with unmatched accuracy and scale. The product leverages Planet’s high-resolution satellite imagery and advanced deep learning models trained on LiDAR data, providing precise measurements of forest carbon stocks and changes.

2024-11-28T09:28:30+00:00Agriculture, Forestry Monitoring, Innovation, Mining, Swift News, Technology|
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How Swift Geospatial Elevates the Mining Industry with Precision Monitoring and Bespoke GIS Solutions

With our expertise in satellite imagery and remote sensing, we offer a range of services that not only streamline day-to-day mining operations but also help companies meet regulatory requirements and reduce their environmental footprint.

2024-10-31T11:43:57+00:00Innovation, Mining, Swift News, Technology|
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The Importance of Monitoring Change

Because more and more people are living in cities, this means that cities are growing and changing all the time. To manage this growth, we need to monitor change detection in cities to see what’s happening and what we need to do. Change detection monitoring means comparing pictures of cities taken from satellites or planes at different times to see what has changed, like new buildings, land use changes, or changes in green areas.

2023-08-29T07:25:00+00:00Change Detection, Conservation, Encroachment, Forestry Monitoring, Innovation, Mining, Sustainable|
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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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