Pacific Environment was awarded grant C52029 from the Australian Coal Association Research Program (ACARP) to investigate the use of lidar (Light Detection and Ranging) for operational dust control at open-cut coal mining operations. The objective of this work was to investigate suitable options and implement a real-time monitoring method that would provide accurate detection of particulate matter (PM) movement across significant and critical sections of a site boundary, with the potential to be visualised in real-time.

- Damon Roddis, Liza McDonough, Ashley Martin, Yunhui Zheng