Rock Slope Engineering Lab IIT(ISM) Dhanbad Jharkhand India

The Rock Slope Engineering Laboratory of the Department of Mining Engineering, IIT(ISM) Dhanbad, was established in 2021. It is a dedicated research lab on mine slope stability and management approaches. This lab has three research groups. The first group is working in the domain of monitoring and management of mine slopes using UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) and Digital Image Processing (DIP) techniques. The lab has a sophisticated UAV system for carrying out field surveys and other associated work in the mines. All accessories and software tools are available for processing UAV data and estimating the stability of the mine slope.