The 2016 AIMS Conference was held in conjunction with the AIMS hosted major international event ISM2016 - the XVI International Congress for Mine Surveying - which was held on 12 – 16 September 2016 in Brisbane, Australia.
GALLERY - View the ISM2016 Photo Gallery
Download the Final ISM2016 Program
AIMS 2016 AGM ANNUAL REPORTS
- Presidents Report 2015-16 - Mick Harris
- Vice President's Report - Chris Moy
- Secretary Report - Nicholas Baillieu
- Treasurer's Report - Chris Nixon
- BOSSI Report - Chris Moy
- CPD Report - Alan Mellor
- WA MSB Report - Shane Watson
ISM2016 - the XVI International Congress for Mine Surveying
PRESENTATIONS AND PAPERS
See also: the ISM2016 Congress Proceedings which includes the full proceedings as published along with a linked Table of Contents to each Paper.
INTRODUCTIONS & WELCOME ADDRESSES
- Welcome to Country and Congress Opening - PRESENTATION
- Welcome Address - Dr Andrew Jarosz, ISM President - TRANSCRIPT OF SPEECH
- ISM 40th Anniversary and 40 Years of Australian Involvement - Dr Andrew Jarosz, ISM President - PRESENTATION
KEYNOTE ADDRESSES
- Mining Education Australia – 10 years’ experience of industry supporting higher education through a collaborative program - S. T. Hall - PAPER | PRESENTATION
- EIT RawMaterials, a new European initiative in Raw Materials - Karen Hanghøj - PAPER | PRESENTATION
- Subsurface Spatial Planning - Axel Preuße, Daniel Beckers, Frank Charlier, Denise Müller, Markus Papst, and Laurenz Preuße - PAPER | PRESENTATION
- Principles of the 110 Mining Method and its Mining-induced Stress Distribution - Manchao He, Zhigang Meng, Goulong Zhu,Weili Gong - PAPER
- Modern trends in mine surveying education in the Russian Federation - Anatoly Okhotin - PAPER
Education, Legal and Social Issues
- Mineral Ownership and the law of support across ISM - Gareth Powell - PAPER | PRESENTATION
- Can an examination guarantee competency? A critical review of international second stage qualification models leading to a summative competency assessment - Hendrik C.I. Grobler - PAPER | PRESENTATION
- Gender equity for the Professional Mine Surveyor, challenges and changes, barriers and benefits - Justin Smith - PAPER | PRESENTATION
General Mine Surveying Issues
- Ernest Henry - Completion of a major underground infrastructure build - Mr Paul Hancock - PRESENTATION
- Open-Cut Mine Machinery Automation: Going Beyond GNSS - Prof Chris Rizos - PRESENTATION
- Surveying the Old Underground Mine Works Using Innovative Techniques - Mr Miroslav Novosad - PAPER | PRESENTATION
- Mining's imperative for enhanced accuracy of real-time data and reporting - Mr Gary Robertson - PRESENTATION
- Development of mine surveying, rock mechanics and GIS at oil and mine companies of Western Urals - Mr Dmitrii Khvostantcev - PRESENTATION
- Deformations monitoring of underground excavation in Lubin Mine with application of laser scanning technology - Tomasz Stoch - PRESENTATION
Environmental Planning
- From digital mine to smart mine - Prof Zhengfu Bian - PRESENTATION
- Study on ecological restoration strategy of coal mining subsidence in Loess Plateau - A/Prof Huping Hou - PRESENTATION
- A vulnerability framework approach for landscape rehabilitation planning in mine closure area - Mr Yongjun Yang - PAPER | PRESENTATION
Subsidence Modelling & Prediction
- The Use of Artificial Neural Networks for the Modeling of the Surface Subsidence Caused by Dehydration of the Rock Mass - Ryszard Hejmanowski, Agnieszka A. Malinowska, Wojciech T. Witkowski - PAPER | PRESENTATION
- Surface movement characteristics of shallow coal seam with rapid mining in China - Liu Yixin, Zhang Junying - PRESENTATION
- On Alternative Methods for Estimating Ground Subsidence due to Mining - Mr Ebrahim Fathi Salmi - PRESENTATION
- Cellular Automaton Model for Subsidence Prediction - Dr Andrew Jarosz - PRESENTATION
Post Mining Issues and Challenges
- Global post-mining challenges – Experiences gained from the German hard coal mining industry - P Goerke-Mallet, C Melchers and J Kretschmann - PAPER | PRESENTATION
- Detection and elimination of hazards due to old hidden goaf over room and pillar coalmine - Zhang Junying, Zhang Bin, Li Hongjie, Li Wen and Chen Qingtong - PAPER | PRESENTATION
- Managing the value of ecological services for abandoned mine land using combined simulation models - Liping ZHANG, An XING, Yuanfang HUANG and Hongyan ZHANG - PAPER | PRESENTATION
- Time Effects on the Mechanisms of post-mining ground subsidence - Ebrahim Fathi - PRESENTATION
- New water management tasks dealing with the development of areas shaped by mining - Emanuel Grün and Hans-Willi Jakobs - PAPER | PRESENTATION
Mining Impacts & Deposit Modelling
- Overcoming Mine Safety, Inefficiency Issues and Deliverable Currency Challenges When Surveying Water Bodies On Mine Sites - Mr Rick Perissinotto - PRESENTATION
- Study on microseismic techniques for mining induced earthquake monitoring - Dr Xun Luo - PAPER | PRESENTATION
- Deposit Parameter Modeling - Methods and Technologies in Bulgaria - A/Prof Stanislav Topalov - PAPER | PRESENTATION
Surface Hazards, Damages and Protection
- Using fuzzy mathematics to model ground surface cracks caused by mining - Xugang Lian, Haifeng Hu, Shengyun Chen - PAPER | PRESENTATION
- Temporal and spatial analysis of surface collapses in Qujiang mine - Hu Bingnan - PAPER | PRESENTATION
- Measurement of ground damages in underground mining areas based on high resolution remote sensing images: A case study in China - Shaoliang ZHANG, Yaqing XU, Huping HOU - PRESENTATION
- The numerical simulation analysis of damage to two-story building caused by underground mining - Mengguang Liao, Huayang Dai - PAPER | PRESENTATION
Subsidence Monitoring, Engineering and Control
- An Overview of the Standardised Subsidence Information Management System (SSIMS) - Dr Robert Pâquet - PRESENTATION
- Analysis of Dynamic Surface Motion Elements in Hard Coal Underground Areas by Using GPS Measurements - M. Hegemann - PAPER | PRESENTATION
- Terrestrial laser scanning monitoring and spatial analysis on ground disaster of Gaoyang coal mine, Shanxi, Chinacoal mine, Shanxi, China - Prof Haifeng Hu - PRESENTATION
Surveying Instruments and Techniques
- Variable precision adjustment optimisation of a long traverse with Maglev gyro observations - Ma Ji, Shi Zhen, and Yang Zhiqiang - PAPER | PRESENTATION
- Mobile Solution for Positioning, 3D-Mapping and Inspection in Underground Mining - N Benecke, A Born, A Boerner, S Rapp, P Stelzer, N Tsirigotis, M Weber and S Zuev - PAPER | PRESENTATION
- Azimuth determination by gyroscope, 50 years later, has anything changed? - Hendrik C. I. Grobler - PAPER | PRESENTATION
- Using an indoor laser scanner for semi-outdoor ferrochrome stockpile volume measurements - Henno Morkel, Carlos Gonzalez - PRESENTATION
3D Surveying
- Latest developments in the practice of shaft inspection - N Benecke, P Hancock and M Weber - PAPER | PRESENTATION
- A Road Map For Migration to Digital Spatial Certainty – Cadastre and Mining - Lee Hellen and Callum McNaughton - PRESENTATION
- Error Propagation and Survey Strategies for Long, Underground, Open Traverses - Andrew Jarosz and Chris Moy - PAPER | PRESENTATION
Geometry of mineral deposits and mineral resource management
- Deposit Parameter Modelling – Methods and Technologies in Bulgaria - Stanislav Topalov, Nikolay Valkanov and Koyno Boev - PAPER
Instruments, mine surveying measurements, and mining cartography
- Change detection analysis using airborne LiDAR: open-cut mine environment - Hong Joo Park, Russell Turner, Bu Yeol Yun and Jae One Lee - PAPER
- 3D Modelling of Coal Stockpiles Using UAV data in an Open Cut Mine Environment - Hong Joo Park, Russell Turner, Dong Rak Lee, and Jae One Lee - PAPER
- GNSS-based Integrated Measuring System (IMS) for operation with basic machines in Brown Coal Mines - Tomasz Majkusiak - PAPER
- GNSS-HUMGAdj – Software for Processing of Global Navigation Satellite System Data for Surveying and Mapping - Gia Trong Nguyen, Ngoc Quang Pham, Nam Chinh Dang, Van Cuong Nguyen, Dieu Bui Tien - PAPER
- The future of surveying - How continuous mine mapping technologies will drive operational productivity up and costs down - James Moncrieff - PAPER
- An Application of Space Filling Curves to Digital Terrain Models - G. Scarmana and K. McDougall - PAPER
- Slope monitoring using total station: A new nomogram for both atmospheric and glass properties corrections - Thomas B. Afeni - PAPER
- Mining’s imperative for enhanced accuracy of real-time spatial data and reporting - Gary Robertson - PAPER | PRESENTATION
Error Propagation and Survey Strategies for Long, Underground,Open Traverses - Andrew Jarosz and Chris Moy - PRESENTATION - Surveying the Old Underground Mine Works Using Innovative Techniques - Miroslav Novosad, Dana Vrublova, Jiří Pospíšil and Rostislav Dandoš - PAPER | PRESENTATION
Rock and ground movements and subsidence damages
- Using Fuzzy Logics to Prioritize Replacement of Mining-affected Water Supply Systems - Agnieszka A. Malinowska - PAPER
- Use of the Artificial Neural Networks for Modelling of Surface Subsidence Caused by Dehydration of Rock Mass - R Hejmanowski, A A Malinowska and W T Witkowski - PAPER
- Multi-criteria method for assessing the risk of discontinuous deformations on the ground surface - Agnieszka A. Malinowska - PAPER
- Prediction of land subsidence and deformations at copper ore underground mining site: experiences and verification based on KGHM mines in Poland - R. Hejmanowski, A A. Malinowska, A. Kwinta, G Patykowski - PAPER
- Mining Subsidence Monitoring and Parameters Extraction using High Resolution SAR - Xiaoqian Cheng, Chao Ma, Zengzhang Guo, and Youfeng Zou - PAPER
- Analysis of mining deformations based on PSInSAR technique – case study of the Walbrzych coalmines, Poland - Wojciech Milczarek and Jan Blachowski - PAPER | PRESENTATION
- Influence of Temperature and Humidity on Equivalent Material and Its Control Measures - Zha Jian-feng, Li Huai-zhan, Guo Guang-li - PAPER
- Longwall surface subsidence control by technology of isolated overburden grout injection - Dayang Xuan and Jialin Xu - PAPER
- A feasibility study on microseismic monitoring techniques for local and mining induced earthquake monitoring - Xun Luo, An Li, Huayou Su, Joey Duan, Ning Yang - PAPER | PRESENTATION
- Software for processing the close-range photogrammetry data collected from an equivalent material simulation experiment - Liu Wensheng, Sun Jinguang, Wu Zuoqi, Shuyou Sun, Jinzhong Liu - PAPER
- Research on Simulation of Strip Pillar Wongawilli Mining Technology under Structures of Zhangcun Coal Mine - Yi Tan, Wenbing Guo, and Erhu Bai - PAPER
Environmental planning
- Using Optical and SAR Satellite Data to Classify Land Use and Land Cover (LULC) of Mining Area - PLiu,YFZou,CMa and RMHan - PAPER
- Dynamic Monitoring of Land Desertification in the Coal Mining Districts, North of Shaanxi Province - Hui Yue - PAPER
Economic transformations, sustainable development, land reclamation, and new energy resources
- Study of the Information Acquisition Technology for Damaged Land in Coal Mining Areas - He-bing Zhang, Xin-chuang Wang and Shi-dong Wang - PAPER
- The Effect of Mining Intensity and Climate Change on GIMMS NDVI3g in ShenDong Coalfield - RM Han, YF Zou, ZZ Guo, C Ma, and P Liu - PAPER
- Geosensor Networks and its Applications in Coal Mine Ground Disaster Precision Monitoring - ZHANG Jin - PAPER
- A vulnerability framework approach for landscape rehabilitation planning in mine closure area - Yongjun Yang, Shaoliang Zhang, Fu Chen1, Huping Hou - PAPER | PRESENTATION
A Look Back in Time
- A look back at my Journey in Mining - Barry Burrows - PRESENTATION
- 30 Year Anniversary AIMS Ipswitch Seminar - Hugh Taylor - PRESENTATION
Workshops
- Leica Geosystems Workshop - 3DReshaper - PRESENTATION
- Trimble Workshop - PRESENTATION
ISM and AIMS Education Forum
- Transition From University to Registration - PRESENTATION
- Surveying and Engineering at USQat USQ - Professor Kevin McDougall - PRESENTATION
- Curtin University WA School of Mines Department of Spatial Sciences Bachelor of Science (Mine and Engineering Surveying) - PRESENTATION
- Connecting Education and Industry a South African Mine Surveying perspective - H. Grobler - PRESENTATION
- Mine Surveyor Generalist or Specialist - Dr G T Powell - PRESENTATION