Insights

Technical writing on geotechnical research, spatial computing, and engineering digitalisation

Notes, demonstrations, and technical write-ups from ongoing research and applied work. The focus is practical, real data, real pipelines, real results. If something here is relevant to a problem you are working on, get in touch.

June 2026

What a $1,200 LiDAR Scanner Can Actually Do, and Why Intensity Matters

The Livox Mid-360 scanning a real workspace: indoor geometry, outdoor vegetation at 30m+, and what intensity colouring reveals about material classification without a camera.

LiDAR Point Cloud Built Environment Livox Mid-360
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Automating Rock Joint Orientation Extraction from LiDAR Point Clouds

A walkthrough of the Fourier-based method developed during PhD research, from raw scan to structured discontinuity data without manual picking.

Rock Mechanics Automation PhD Research
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UAV Photogrammetry vs Terrestrial LiDAR for Pit Wall Mapping

A practical comparison of acquisition methods, accuracy trade-offs, and workflow implications for underground and open pit geotechnical applications.

Drone Mapping Photogrammetry Mining
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Building a Real-Time Geotechnical Monitoring Dashboard in Python

From raw sensor feeds to an interactive web dashboard, architecture, libraries, and the lessons learned from deploying it in a live underground environment.

Python Digitalisation Monitoring