DAMSAT (DAm Monitoring from SATellites) is the system we are developing to remotely monitor tailings dams and other tailings deposit areas utilising Earth Observation and Global Navigation Satellite System technologies.
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Minimising the risk of tailings dams failures through the use of remote sensing data
Water dam failure: space-based monitoring system gets the go-ahead for expansion
HR Wallingford will broaden our space-based dam monitoring system, DAMSAT, to include water dams in a bid to reduce the risk of failures. The UK Space Agency has extended our funding following a pilot project to monitor tailings dams used to…
The potential to reduce the risks posed by tailings dams using satellite-based information
Our latest article “The potential to reduce the risks posed by tailings dams using satellite-based information” published in the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction is available as a free download until 20 August 2019 directly from the Publishers’ website Elsevier. To…
At the 2019 ICOLD Annual meeting
Our Project Director Craig Goff attended the ICOLD 2019 Annual meeting in Ottawa, Canada in early June. He presented the DAMSAT project and participated as a speaker in the Tailings Dams Committee Workshop. The annual meeting was an excellent opportunity…
