Volumetrics at Suncor’s Oil Sands Mines - PhotoSat The need for a cost-effective mapping strategy The greatest environmental challenges of oil sands mining is water use and tailings management. Oil Sands miner Suncor Energy is at the forefront of the development and application of “dry tailings” oil sands technology. PhotoSat and DigitalGlobe have been providing Suncor with regular stereo WorldView topographic surveying, accurate to better than 20cm in elevation. This helps Suncor monitor its mine sites and tailings disposal areas.“Suncor Energy approached us to develop a cost-effective method to map and monitor their active mining sites and tailings disposal areas,” says Gerry Mitchell, President of PhotoSat. “Their conventional methods of tracking volume changes involved GPS surveying a

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