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A Real Time Coal Content/Ore Grade (C2OG) Sensor, Technical Report: April - June 2004

Description: This twelfth quarterly technical report discusses work on classification algorithms and an improved lighting system. Measurements on core in the Stillwater Mine core room showed that false positive sulfide classifications occurred at breaks in the core and there were also problems with camera saturation due to glints from crystal facets within the core. To reduce false positives due to noisy data, a wavelet transform smoothing program was explored. Results indicate classifications improve only … more
Date: July 29, 2004
Creator: Swanson, Rand
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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A Real-Time Coal Content/Ore Grade (C2OG) Sensor, Technical Report: April - June 2003

Description: This eighth quarterly technical report discusses the progress made on a machine vision technique for determining coal content and preparations for Year-3 system deployment. Classification maps for coal have been generated and shown to two coal-mining executives. An application for licensing high-speed hyperspectral data analysis software from the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) has been made. Both Western Energy and Stillwater Mining Company have offered platforms for Year-3 deployment. Barrett… more
Date: July 21, 2003
Creator: Swanson, Rand
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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A Real Time Coal Content/Ore Grade (C2OG) Sensor, Technical Report: January - March 2004

Description: This eleventh quarterly technical report discusses the installation of a spectral machine vision system in the Stillwater mine's core room. In brief, the system has been fabricated, installed, and preliminary measurements have been made. A first round of refinements has been made, included replacing a bad bearing and applying filters to the lighting. A high-speed Spectral Angle Mapper (SAM) program was written to classify the cores in real time. This program identifies sulfides in the core samp… more
Date: April 27, 2003
Creator: Swanson, Rand
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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A Real Time Coal Content/Ore Grade (C2OG) Sensor, Technical Report: January - March 2003

Description: This seventh quarterly technical report discusses the progress made on a machine vision technique for determining coal content and ore grades. Considerable progress has been made on coal analysis. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) target recognition software has been tested and incorporated into the system. This software decreases analysis time considerably and is more intuitive to use. Work with board-level computers has proceeded well; ultimately this will make the technology more compact and f… more
Date: April 28, 2003
Creator: Swanson, Rand
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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A Real Time Coal Content/Ore Grade (C2OG) Sensor, Technical Report: October - December 2003

Description: This tenth quarterly technical report discusses the progress made on a machine vision technique for ore grading based on hyperspectral imaging. A graduate student at Montana Tech has successfully defended her thesis related to this project. Arrangements with Stillwater Mining Company to deploy a machine vision system in their core room have been completed. Designs for they system that will be installed next quarter have been drawn and parts are being machined. Presentations on the spectral imag… more
Date: January 23, 2004
Creator: Swanson, Rand
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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A Real Time Coal Content/Ore Grade (C2OG) Sensor, Technical Report: July - August 2004

Description: This thirteenth quarterly technical report describes data collection at the Stillwater Mine and an additional improvement to the lighting system. The data collection system was returned to the Stillwater Mine during this reporting period and a large amount of data was collected. The data will be analyzed and correlated with fire assays in the next reporting period. The majority of work done this quarter has been devoted to collecting data from cores scanned in the Stillwater Mining Company core… more
Date: October 22, 2004
Creator: Swanson, Rand
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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A Real-Time Coal Content/Ore Grade (C2OG) Sensor: Final Report

Description: This is the final report of a three year DOE funded project titled ''A real-time coal content/ore grade (C{sub 2}OG) sensor''. The sensor, which is based on hyperspectral imaging technology, was designed to give a machine vision assay of ore or coal. Sensors were designed and built at Resonon, Inc., and then deployed at the Stillwater Mining Company core room in southcentral Montana for analyzing platinum/palladium ore and at the Montana Tech Spectroscopy Lab for analyzing coal and other materi… more
Date: April 2005
Creator: Swanson, Rand
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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A Real Time Coal Content Ore Grade (C2OG) Sensor

Description: The overall approach of this effort is to spectrally image ore or coal, and then use the spectral content (i.e., the particular colors of the ore or coal) to differentiate between the ore or coal grades. Currently, experts with practiced eyes do just this to identify the grade of platinum/palladium ore from the Stillwater Mine in south-central Montana. Additionally, trained eyes can identify high-sulfur and high-ash coal visually. The premise of this effort is that machine vision can accomplish… more
Date: January 31, 2002
Creator: Swanson, Rand
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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