Editorial: Mine engineering geological disaster forecasting, monitoring, and prevention

Pike River Mine Disaster: Systems-Engineering and Organisational Contributions

The Pike River mine (PRM), an underground coal mine in New Zealand (NZ), exploded in 2010. This paper analyses the causes of the disaster, with a particular focus on the systems engineering and organisational contributions. Poor systems-engineering contributed via poorly designed ventilation, use of power-electronics underground, and placement of the main ventilation fan underground. Management...

Mine Ground Disaster Monitoring Based on Geosensor Networks

Sensor network technology is one of the most promising technologies in the high technology field. Building integrated multi-sensor disaster monitoring system based on sensor network technology is the main direction of the intelligent disaster monitoring technique. The exploitation activities of the mineral resources may lead to geological disasters, so monitoring system needs to speed up the th...

Editorial: Neurotechnology: An Engineering Perspective

Editorial: A Study of Disaster Databases

The global investigation of disasters in recent years shows that their number has increased annually and the number of affected people and costs of disasters are increasing

Study on the Key Techniques of Mine Environment Protection and Disaster Prevention Decision Support System (mepdpdss)

The Mine Environment Protection and Disaster Prevention Decision Support System (MEPDPDSS) will be discussed in this paper. In the proposed system, RS, GIS, GPS and their integrated technology can play important roles. This system consists of data capturing sub-system, data storage and management sub-system, data analyzing and processing sub-system, simulation and decision support sub-system, o...