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Groundprobe goes bigger in Indonesia

Opens larger, more advanced geotechnical support service centre.

A Groundprobe engineer in the upgraded Balikpapan GSS centre.

A Groundprobe engineer in the upgraded Balikpapan GSS centre.

The centre, an upgrade of the centre the Orica subsidiary first opened in Indonesia in 2012, will provide 24-7 real-time remote radar and laser monitoring services for mine slopes and tailings dams globally.

Groundprobe CEO David Noon said the state-of-the-art centre provided the most technologically advanced solution for remote monitoring in the region.

"It has been developed with high-tech infrastructure to ensure smooth support delivery, offers collaboration opportunities to our global customers and is designed to facilitate advanced software development and technology implementation in engagement with Orica's technology roadmap," he said.

When the Balikpapan centre was first opened 10 years ago it had just one engineer. These days a staff of more than 60 geotechnical engineers monitor more than 100 systems from multiple stations 24-7. More than one third of those geotechnical engineers are female.

Globally Groundprobe's geotechnical support service team numbers more than 120 engineers and radar operators.

Groundprobe operates two additional monitoring centres in Santiago, Chile and Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

 

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