Airborne Surveys Worldwide

Water & environment

Yarwun Tailings Storage Facility

Yarwun

SkyTEM Surveys’ Australian partner, GroundProbe, conducted an airborne suvery for Rio Tinto Alcan to assess current and potential impacts of planned expansions to its Yarwun Tailngs Storage Facility (TSF). Using ...

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Exploration of buried valleys / paleochannels

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Setting Denmark is a world leader in mapping groundwater resources. In the 1990s in order to locate and protect the country’s natural resources the Danish Government embanked on the ambitious ...

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Mapping salinity

Salinity

The Danish Hydrology Research Center, HOBE wanted to balance the water budget calculations of a catchment area. They suspected the aquifer was discharging into a lagoon via a buried channel and investigated the area to determine the channel’s significance in submarine groundwater discharge (SGD).

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Mapping fresh water and saltwater encroachment

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Setting: The Galapagos Island of Santa Cruz. Santa Cruz supports 13,000 inhabitants and 120,000 annual visitors and there is very little evidence of groundwater on the island. Drilling restrictions and ...

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Environmental assessment pollution plume related to groundwater in Ribe, Denmark

Survey by the North Sea, Denmark

From 1956 until 1973, untreated wastewater from a chemical plant was dumped into 6 pits in a plantation in the south-western part of Jutland, Denmark 0.5-1.0 km from the coastline. Today, it is one of the worst pollution scenarios in Denmark with high concentrations of e.g. chlorinated organic solvents.

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Large-Scale Groundwater Exploration in Selangor, Malaysia

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A SkyTEM airborne TDEM survey performed by SkyTEM ApS and DanWater Malaysia Sdn Bhd is being carried out as part of a groundwater exploration programme by Sime Darby Water Resources Sdn Bhd. The TDEM data are modelled by SkyTEM ApS.

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