Acoustic Zoom have been chosen as the 2018 #DisruptMining Live Finale winners after a deliberation by judges. The event, hosted by Goldcorp and co-hosted by KPMG and sponsors including Hard-Line, the global supplier of tele-remote, semi-autonomous and autonomous mining technology, was ounded in 2017 by Goldcorp and Integra Gold, is described a catalyst to accelerate innovation – to encourage new ideas, generate new opportunities and tackle problems more efficiently, and to bridge the gap between mining and technology.
“It’s a platform for entrepreneurs working with disruptive and exponential technologies to highlight their application across the entire sector. From exploration and mine closure to financing and sustainability, #DisruptMining engages people with exponential technologies and rogue ideas, and provides a C$1 million capital opportunity to bring their disruption to mining.”
Acoustic Zoom aims to unlock the potential of Canada’s mineral exploration sector with high-frequency 3D imaging to help map complex geological formations deep within the earth’s micro-structure. “A breakthrough in its ultra-high-frequency 3D Borehole Seismic imaging method provides an unprecedented resolution of subsurface geological structures, while reducing 3D survey costs by up to 90%. Acoustic Zoom’s method is intended to help exploration teams drill smarter, guide planning and achieve investment value quicker with more actionable and accurate information.”
By design, Acoustic Zoom accentuates the rich content of the non-specular backscatter energy directly probing underlying geophysical properties of the earth; conventional migration accentuates specular reflecting from ambiguous impedance changes in the subsurface. Acoustic Zoom reconstructs the complementary components of recorded energy that 3D seismic rejects as incoherent noise.
Non-specular returns detected by Acoustic Zoom have significantly lower coherent background interference because coherent interference is highly attenuated due to the narrow beamwidth of the receiver array and Acoustic Zoom’s® beamformer method further suppresses coherent interference through the firms’ proprietary adaptive classification and filtering of specular energy using singular value decomposition (SVD) and advanced eigen-structure methods.
Acoustic Zoom reconstructs the complementary components of recorded energy that 3D seismic rejects as incoherent noise. Non-specular returns detected by AZ have significantly lower coherent background interference because coherent interference is highly attenuated due to the narrow beamwidth of the receiver array, and Acoustic Zoom’s beamformer method further suppresses coherent interference through the firm’s proprietary adaptive classification and filtering of specular energy using singular value decomposition (SVD) and advanced eigen-structure methods.
