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Phoenix: One-Stop-Shop Environment Rehabilitation Software |
Phoenix
is a Environment Data
Visualisation, Analysis and Management System that runs on Windows
XP. It was designed and written by CMLR’s
Alex Pudmenzky to meet and
support the specific requirements of the CMLR research team working
across the breadth of environmental issues and challenges presented by
the mining and mineral processing industries. Since its conception in
2005, it has continued to undergo development and capability expansion
to match the needs of the Centre’s researchers working on industry
projects.
Phoenix provides, in a single package, all
functionality necessary to store, retrieve, visualise and analyse mine
environmental data. This in turn leads to a better understanding of the
complex interacting processes that could potentially cause environmental
harm and allows responsible parties (regulatory agencies, industry and
research bodies) to better comprehend, share and use this information to
prevent impacts to the environment and the community.
Mine sites accumulate an enormous amount of data collected by on-site
instrumentation (measuring surface water and groundwater parameters,
dust and noise, constructed cover performance, meteorological
conditions, etc), from transects or similar for following changes in
soil or other substrates, flora and fauna, and from many other ad hoc
specific purpose sampling locations. The resulting documentation is
available in many different formats, including site and compliance
monitoring reports (hardcopy and/or electronic), photos, videos and
audio recordings, and may be scattered across several geographical
locations. All this information can be gathered into
Phoenix.
Locations of samplers and other sources of data are marked on an aerial
photo that is draped over the true 3D topology of the mine site and
displayed by
Phoenix. This empowers the user to develop a very
accurate mental image of a site and to discover causes of anomalies or
previously hidden trends to then be able to make accurate
recommendations as to possible rectifications. Information stored in
relational databases can be linked to samplers located on the map and
interrogated to change their visual representation. An intuitive user
interface and the new CMLR Show and Tell feature (specifically designed
for
Phoenix) enable the novice or casual user of the
system to quickly become confident in its use.
Current and future developments of the software will take advantage of
the stored data to predict how the various measured components across
the landscape will interact with each other in the future, thus leading
to an informed decision and potential rationalisation about the level of
sampling, monitoring and collection of experimental data that is
necessary to maintain over time.
From the sites that CMLR has used this system with thus far,
Phoenix has proven to be of great benefit, and its
relevance and potential to the whole mine closure process (including the
closure to relinquishment stage) is very significant.
The industry can now also benefit
first-hand from this
application by purchasing
Phoenix for their own in-house use. Several
options are available, please contact
Alex
Pudmenzky for further details.
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Animation showing Phoenix displaying the
- Digital Terrain Model
(DTM) points
- Surface constructed from the DTM
with data sampler points
- Digital photo draped
over the surface
- Contour lines created on the fly
- Changing value of an environmental
variable colour coded and animated over time
- 3D model rotated
(press the refresh button of your browser to
repeat animation).
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Recommended System
Configuration
Pentium 4 with 2048Mb memory,
Windows XP SP2, Graphic card with 256Mb memory and OpenGL hardware acceleration, 80 GB
hard disk capacity, Internet Explorer V6, Windows Media Player. Other
configurations may work as well and can be tested on request.
Phoenix works well on a
HP Compaq nw8240 Mobile Workstation (contains ATI
mobility FireGL V5000 graphics card), a
HP Compaq dc7800p
(with ATI
Radeon X1300/x1550 256MB Graphics Card) or a
HP workstation XW6200
(contains
ATI FireGL V3100
Graphics card). |
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Phoenix colour filled contour lines with
environmental sampling points. |
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What people say about
Phoenix
"Phoenix is a one stop
program for storing all of your environmental monitoring data. It allows
the user a simple retrieval and display of the data in an impressive
multi visual format".
Nick Currey
Manager Environment & Community
Klohn Crippen Berger Ltd
"In Phoenix, the Queensland
Resources Council sees the potential for an
indispensable means of data collection to assist industry deliver quality rehabilitation and minimise environmental
harm. Phoenix was an invaluable aid to the QRC / EPA workshop on progressive rehabilitation".
Frances Hayter
Director Environment and Social Policy
Queensland Resources Council
"Phoenix has the potential
to be a very valuable & powerful environmental management tool for
mining operations."
Peter Roe
Manager Environment
BMA Coal
"Having some
previous experience with data management and presentation I found
Phoenix addresses many challenges with regards to those tasks. I
certainly appreciate the amount of work and development that has
occurred in order to achieve it's current status and view it as an
effective tool in assisting decision makers and stakeholders."
Roger Potts (Pottsie)
Closure Superintendent
Newmont Asia Pacific |
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Some
Phoenix
features:
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3D contours &
gradient lines
(created on-the-fly)
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Fly-over 3D
terrain tours
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External database
connections
(MS-Access or corporate RDB)
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User-definable
sampler design
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Import data by
selecting a region in a MS-Excel spreadsheet
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2D graphs of
monitoring data
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3D surface animations
of colour coded contaminant concentrations
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Reporting of
user-defined parameter exceedances
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Input/output of
sampler coordinates including DXF format
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Spoken text voice
support
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Phoenix 3D terrain model and visualisation of a surface
contaminant (red) that can be animated over time (movie of colours
spreading on surface). |
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Brochure
Download Phoenix brochure as
PDF File
(800KB).
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Literature
Pudmenzky, A., Rossato, L.,
McIlveen, G., Mulligan, D., Phoenix: A Mine Environment Data
Visualisation and Management System, Proceedings of the First
International Seminar on Mine Closure, 13-15 September 2006, Perth.
PDF File
(860KB). |
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Industry acceptance
The
EPA/QRC Progressive
Rehabilitation Training Workshop Toward Certainty of Sign-off, held on 24-25 August 2006 at
the
Stamford Plaza in Brisbane,
chose
Phoenix for their Coal mine & Metalliferous
mine scenario planning exercises. |
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