Description
Book Description
Geotechnical Instrumentation and Monitoring in Mining 4.0 presents a comprehensive and forward-looking exploration of how modern sensing technologies, data systems, and analytics are transforming geotechnical monitoring across the mining value chain. At its core, geotechnical monitoring is no longer a periodic, manual activity; it is an integrated, real-time system designed to ensure safety, validate engineering assumptions, and enable predictive risk management in increasingly complex mining environments. This book bridges the gap between traditional instrumentation practices and the emerging Mining 4.0 paradigm. It brings together in-ground sensors, surveying systems, radar, LiDAR, UAVs, and satellite-based technologies such as InSAR into a unified framework supported by advanced data acquisition, analytics, and digital twin architectures. Through this integration, monitoring evolves into a continuous feedback loop that not only detects ground behavior but also anticipates failure mechanisms, optimizes operations, and enhances decision-making across open pit, underground, tailings, and infrastructure systems. Discusses technologies in the age of mining 4.0 to monitor ground behaviour in mines. Describes all geotechnical instrumentation technologies considering surface and underground mines. Provides approaches and methods to improve data-driven decision making. Explores goaf monitoring and subsidence monitoring and monitoring in rich methane environments. Explains how to implement advanced data analytics through case studies. Designed for engineers, researchers, and industry professionals in mining, geotechnical, and civil engineering, and data sciences, this book serves as both a technical reference and a strategic guide to building intelligent, resilient, and future-ready geotechnical monitoring systems in the era of digital mining.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction to Geotechnical Monitoring Chapter 2. Geotechnical Instrumentation Plan Chapter 3. In-Ground Monitoring Chapter 4. Ground Radar Monitoring Chapter 5. Laser Scanner Monitoring Chapter 6. Surveying Monitoring Chapter 7. Satellite InSAR Chapter 8. Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Monitoring Chapter 9. Data Acquisition Technologies Chapter 10. Data Analytics and AI Chapter 11. Application of Digital Twin Chapter 12. Monitoring in Open-Pit Mines Chapter 13. Monitoring in Underground Mines Chapter 14. Monitoring in Tailings Storage Facilities (TSFs) Chapter 15. Monitoring in mine rails Chapter 16. Vibration and Noise Monitoring
Editor
Dr. Ali Soofastaei
Biography
​Dr. Ali Soofastaei is a global artificial intelligence (AI) projects leader, an international keynote speaker, and a professional author.
​He completed his Ph.D. and Postdoctoral Research Fellow at The University of Queensland, Australia, in the field of AI applications in mining engineering, where he led a revolution in the use of deep learning and AI methods to increase energy efficiency, reduce operation and maintenance costs, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions in surface mines. As a scientific supervisor, for many years, he has provided practical guidance to undergraduate and postgraduate students in mechanical and mining engineering and information technology.
Dr. Soofastaei has more than fifteen years of academic experience as an Assistant Professor and leader of global research activities. Results from his research and development projects have been published in international journals and keynote presentations; He has presented his practical achievements at conferences in the United States, Europe, Asia, and Australia. He has been involved in industrial research and development projects in several industries, including oil and gas (Royal Dutch Shell); steel (Danieli); and mining (BHP, Rio Tinto, Anglo American, and Vale). His extensive practical experience in the industry has equipped him to work with complex industrial problems in highly technical and multi-disciplinary teams. Dr. Soofastaei is working actively with some prestigious global publishers same as Mc Graw-Hill Education, Intech Open, Springer, and CRC Press as an author and academic editor.
