Terraced open-pit mine under overcast sky with slope-monitoring instruments in the foreground.
Applications · Open-pit mining

Open-pit
mining

Live, fast-changing slopes where movement can build toward failure in shifts, not weeks. This is where DTG's monitoring runs hardest — and where our centre keeps the watch, continuously.

Built for the pit

Radar-led slope monitoring, run from our centre.

Open-pit slopes can move toward failure in shifts, not weeks — so DTG's monitoring centre watches them in real time, validates the alarm stream, and escalates the movement that matters against your TARP thresholds.

An open pit is a live, changing slope. The window between a signal and a failure can be short — so monitoring only protects the pit when someone competent is watching continuously and can act the moment a threshold is crossed.
What's different here

This is the most escalation-driven environment DTG works in: high-frequency radar, alarms that matter, and decisions measured in shifts, not weeks.

Movement can be progressive, regressive or sudden — and telling them apart, fast, is what turns data into the right call.

What DTG actually does

From overwhelming alarm volume to the movement that matters.

The value isn't raising alarms — anything can do that. It's the disciplined workflow that filters an overwhelming volume of automated alarms down to the real ground failures, so the right movement reaches the right people.

Validate
Automated alarms validated by our monitoring centre
Escalate
Real slope movement escalated against TARP thresholds
Act
Ground failures detected and acted on

That workflow — validate the noise, escalate the real movement, act on the failures — is the discipline.

How we monitor it

Radar-led, and read as one picture.

Open-pit monitoring leads with real-time slope stability radar, layered with other sources — each answering a different question about the slope.

DTG's independence is the point: on your pit, what we recommend is driven by your slope and your data, not by any product. We work across whatever's already on site — and because the value is in how we read it, new sensors simply add to the picture.

Movement
Continuous, area-wide slope movement — today from Real & Synthetic Aperture Radar (RAR & SAR)
Point
Precise movement at defined points — prism & total-station surveys
Positioning
Absolute positional movement over time — GNSS
Context
The triggers movement is read against — blast & rainfall records
Where DTG's role ends

We support the decision. We don't own the pit.

Being clear about the boundary is part of being trustworthy. DTG provides independent monitoring, review and escalation support — we strengthen the decision, we don't replace the people accountable for it.

We support slope-failure assessment — always with stated assumptions, uncertainty and limitations.
We do not replace your site geotechnical team or on-ground inspections.
Final operational decisions and sign-off remain with your accountable engineers.

Monitoring an open pit?

Tell us about your slopes and your setup — we'll show you how DTG would support it.

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