Lochmueller performs annual coal pile inventory surveys at both A.B. Brown and Culley Generating Stations in Southwest Indiana for the purpose of calculating the total volume and tonnage of each site’s existing coal piles, as well as conducting testing to analyze the moisture, ash, sulfur, and BTU content of each coal pile.
Lochmueller utilizes conventional ground surveying methods in conjunction with unmanned aerial system reality capture data collection to create a dense point cloud to generate a contoured surface model from which the volumetric measurements are derived. This creates a much safer and cost-effective method to collect the necessary field data and provides a much more robust data set when compared to traditional ground surveying methods.
