The Belchatów is a large brown coal mine in the centre of Poland, 150 km west of the capital, Warsaw. Belchatów quarries brown coal in open pit mining with a surface of over 30 sq. km. The operator is the Polish Energy Group – Open Pit Mine Belchatów. Due to the increasing demands for mine efficiency and slope stability in the excavation area, the customer decided in 2006 to implement an automatic monitoring system combined with a mining control system. The Polish Energy Group required a system for the automatic monitoring of slope stability in combination with a risk management system, which controls the excavation. After a consultancy period for the project, the customer selected Leica Monitoring Solution for the slope stability monitoring as it has online 24/7 da

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