FOR QUARRY OPERATIONS
A quarry rarely has a survey department, a planning department and a reporting department. It has one or two people who fly the drone, take the monthly stock, mark up the next face and produce whatever the client or the regulator asked for. Software that assumes three specialists gets in the way.
The same project holds the survey, the measurements, the design and the report. You are not exporting between a viewer that cannot compute, a CAD package that does not know the terrain and a spreadsheet you rebuild every month.
It matters most on the days when the loop has to be closed quickly: a stock take in the morning, a face marked up in the afternoon, a PDF out before the end of the day.
Draw the pile boundary, pick the reference base, apply the material density and read volume and tonnage. The result exports as a print-ready PDF with the reference mode and the measured extent alongside the number.
Because the boundaries stay in the project, next month is the same piles measured the same way — which is the only way a stock series means anything.
Draw the block boundary and the face line, then set the pattern: staggered or square, burden, spacing, front offset, grid rotation. Collar elevations come from the DEM and the design floor can be derived from the surveyed ground, so hole depths follow the bench you actually have.
Burden relief is measured along the hole axis at every elevation. On a battered face that is where an inclined hole gets tight, and it is the thing a plan-view distance to the crest understates.
You get blasted volume, tonnage and a hole-by-hole table exported to Excel or CSV with the same row lettering as the drawing.
Extraction volumes against a reference surface, contours at the interval the permit specifies, cross-sections for a profile, and a site view exported as KMZ for anyone who just wants to look at it in Google Earth.
Print-ready PDF for the reports; DXF and CSV for the people who want to work with the geometry themselves.
The public beta is free with every feature unlocked, no time limit and no watermark on exports, so evaluating it does not require a purchase decision first.
It runs on the laptop you already have and works offline, which for a quarry office with unreliable internet is the difference between usable and not.
Each of these has its own page with the detail and the supported formats.
Volume above a reference base, density-based tonnage and a PDF report.
Learn moreDrill patterns on a surveyed bench, with depths read from the DEM.
Learn moreExtraction volumes against a reference surface or level.
Learn moreWhat to do with the flight once photogrammetry is finished.
Learn moreContours at the interval a permit or report specifies.
Learn moreHow much came out this period, with an uncertainty figure.
Learn moreImagery draped on the terrain so faces and toes are easy to trace.
Learn moreDXF, CSV, GeoTIFF, KMZ and PDF for whoever asked.
Learn moreYou need to understand your own site. The workflow is: load the surface your drone flight produced, draw a boundary, apply a measurement. The parts that need judgement — reference base, material density, contour interval — are things a quarry already has answers for.
Yes. A photogrammetry DSM from a normal drone flight is a valid surface for stockpile measurement — the pile is on the surface, which is exactly what a DSM captures.
Measure the same piles against the same reference definition each period. Boundaries and reference surfaces stay in the project, so the comparison is between like and like rather than between two setups.
Yes — block boundary and face line, then burden, spacing, offset and rotation, with collar elevations read from the DEM and a hole-by-hole table exported to Excel or CSV.
Nothing right now. The public beta is free with all features unlocked and no time limit. Paid editions are planned but not yet on sale.
Free beta for Windows x64. Works fully offline with GeoTIFF, LAS/LAZ and DXF.
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