Hovermap

Hovermap is Emesent's flagship smart mobile LiDAR scanning system combining advanced collision avoidance and autonomous flight technologies to map hazardous, GPS-denied environments. It deploys via drone, robot (Boston Dynamics Spot), vehicle, handheld, or backpack. Hovermap uses world-class SLAM (Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping) to deliver high-density, shadowless point clouds of underground workings, voids, and infrastructure.

In underground mining, Hovermap replaces traditional CMS (Cavity Monitoring System) scanners, reducing scan times from hours to minutes while covering stopes and voids inaccessible to conventional methods. It has completed over 3,000 autonomous flights including the world's first beyond-line-of-sight drone flight 600m underground. Mining applications include autonomous stope mapping, convergence monitoring, void inspection, stockpile volumetrics, infrastructure digital twin capture, and geotechnical hazard assessment.

Hovermap data feeds directly into Emesent Aura for processing and into partner platforms including Pointerra3D for cloud-based point cloud analytics. It represents the data capture layer for creating accurate underground and surface mine digital twins.