Airfree

Industries — Mining & Resources

From exploration to rehabilitation — spatial intelligence for resources

Mining operations run on ground truth. Airfree integrates survey, earth observation, tenure, and environmental data into a single authoritative platform — from the first exploration peg to final bond release.

±2 cm
Survey accuracy
< 4 hr
Vol. report turnaround
Portfolio-scale
Tenement management
6-day
Satellite revisit cycle

Platform Capabilities

Built for the full mine life cycle

Every capability is connected — survey control, volumetrics, tenure, and environmental data share a common spatial fabric, eliminating the re-projection and reconciliation work that consumes survey teams today.

Mine Survey

Sub-centimetre survey control referenced to GDA2020/ITRF. Total station, GNSS, and drone survey workflows integrated directly into your mine design environment.

Stockpile Volumetrics

Automated volume calculation from drone photogrammetry and LiDAR scans. Confidence intervals, cut-fill analysis, and ore grade correlation from field sensor tagging.

Drill Hole Management

Collar, survey, and assay data in a single spatial repository. Visualise drill programs in 3D, validate against tenure boundaries, and export to Leapfrog or Micromine.

Tenure Management

Live integration with State mining registers. Track exploration licences, mining leases, and native title overlays against your operational footprint with automated expiry alerts.

Environmental Monitoring

Continuous telemetry from field sensors — dust, noise, water quality, groundwater levels — overlaid with spatial context and threshold-triggered notifications.

Haul Road Optimisation

Network analysis across real terrain models. Minimise cycle times, tyre wear, and fuel burn across pit-to-ROM and ROM-to-plant corridors using live grade and condition data.

Rehabilitation Mapping

Multi-temporal satellite analysis tracks revegetation progress against approved rehabilitation plans. Automated reporting for condition assessments and bond reduction submissions.

Satellite Change Detection

InSAR-based ground deformation monitoring, optical change detection over active pits, and SAR coherence analysis for subsidence risk — updated on each satellite pass.

Safety & Risk

Spatial data as a safety system

Critical hazard information reaches the people who need it — in the pit, in the control room, and in the boardroom — from a single source of truth.

Hazard Mapping

Geotechnical instability zones, highwall risk classifications, and gas hazard extents maintained as authoritative spatial layers accessible from pit and control room.

Blast Exclusion Zones

Dynamic exclusion polygons issued from blast control, pushed to all mobile and fixed displays on site. Personnel location integration available via third-party cap lamp systems.

Tailings Dam Monitoring

Continuous InSAR deformation time-series, piezometer telemetry overlay, and automated ANCOLD-aligned reporting. Early warning thresholds configurable per dam class.

Key Products

Purpose-built products, not configured middleware

Each product in the Airfree portfolio was designed for the data volumes and accuracy requirements of professional survey and earth-observation workflows — not adapted from web mapping roots.

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Point Cloud — LiDAR & drone photogrammetry processing at scale
Raster DEM — High-resolution terrain models for design and analysis
Field Sync — Mobile data capture with offline-first sync to platform
Earth Observation — Multi-source satellite analytics and change detection
Airfree Maps — Enterprise spatial platform for operations and reporting

Data Ingestion

Every source your geoscientists already use

Airfree ingests, reprojects, and harmonises heterogeneous mining datasets into a consistent spatial fabric. Sensor, survey, and satellite data share the same coordinate reference and temporal model — no bespoke integration per instrument.

LiDAR (airborne & terrestrial)
Drone photogrammetry
UAV multispectral surveys
Satellite optical (Sentinel, WorldView)
SAR / InSAR (Sentinel-1, ALOS-2)
Ground-penetrating radar
Borehole geophysics
Field sensor telemetry

Compliance & Reporting

Audit-ready outputs, not manual exports

Regulatory deliverables are generated from the same spatial data that runs operations — no parallel reporting databases, no version reconciliation at lodgement time.

Mining Lease Data

Authoritative lease boundaries, condition polygons, and access restrictions drawn from State register feeds and maintained in real time against your operational layers.

Environmental Reporting

Automated generation of EMPs, annual environment reports, and noise/dust exceedance summaries from continuous monitoring data — formatted for State and Federal lodgement.

Tenure Registry

Exploration and mining tenement status tracked against granted, pending, and expired records. Overlap analysis flags operational areas at risk from third-party applications.

Integrations

Fits the tools your teams already run

Airfree is not a replacement for specialist mine-design software — it is the spatial backbone that feeds them. Certified connectors eliminate the file-format translation work that consumes geoscience and survey staff time.

ESRI ArcGIS

Native WFS/WMS, feature service push

Maptek Vulcan

DTM and solid export/import

Leapfrog Geo

Drill hole and geological model exchange

Micromine

Survey data and resource model integration

Additional integrations available for Surpac, DataShed, Pozi, and custom REST/OGC endpoints.Contact us to confirm compatibility →

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Talk to our mining specialists

Whether you are scoping a greenfield exploration program, upgrading a brownfield operation, or approaching rehabilitation closure — we start with your data, your workflows, and your regulatory context.