Case Study: a leading mining and metals company achieves 60% savings in ground stability monitoring with Descartes Labs

Monitor ground stability across mine infrastructure

A leading mining and metals company faced significant challenges in managing the ground stability of its large, dispersed, and aging assets, such as pit walls and tailings dams. These unstable structures posed a major tail-risk that threatened to drastically alter the economics of its supply chain. To address this, the company turned to Descartes Labs for its automated, global subsidence and deformation monitoring system.

Descartes Labs implemented its high-frequency, weather-independent InSAR models to detect and verify physical movement across remote locations. This solution provided automated, continuous data access at a much lower cost than traditional methods. The use of this technology resulted in substantial cost savings for the customer, cutting expenses by 60% compared to conventional orbital radar programs.