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Artificial Intelligence in Geo-Engineering

EMerald Geomodelling’s Co-Founder and VP Technology Craig W. Christensen will be a panel member for a roundtable at the 3rd International Conference on Information Technology in Geo-Engineering. The topic at hand: how has AI and machine learning impacted our industry, and what’s the future ahead?

Using helicopters and electromagnetism: Reducing drilling along the new E6

From a grass-covered field in Stjørdal, a helicopter lifts off. Below it hangs a hexagonal structure measuring 342 m2 that weighs 700 kg. After a few days of flying a total of 30 km2 of new alignments of the E6 in Trøndelag will be covered: 20 km2 between Ulsberg and Kvål, and 10 km2 between Kvithammar and Åsen.

EMerald Geomodelling becomes an independent, innovation company

The newly established company EMerald Geomodelling will, in the next few years, work to enable smarter resource utilization in public and private sector when planning infrastructure. The innovation company is based on several years of research at the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI). By combining geoscanning with machine learning, the innovative company wants to help solve major challenges in infrastructure projects in the coming years.

Ronny Liverød has joined us as VP Business Development

We are thrilled to have Ronny Liverød on the team as VP Business Development! – I am looking forward to spreading the word about EMerald Geomodelling’s ingenious and innovative technique to the world, says Ronny Liverød. As business development manager, he is the one who will have the customer contact and develop both the Norwegian and the international market.

Geoscanning the new E18 highway for Nye Veier

In a commission for Nye Veier, EMerald Geomodelling and SkyTEM Surveys will be mapping the ground conditions in connection with the design of the new E18 highway southeast in Norway. Three stretches of road amounting to a total of around 52 kilometres are scheduled to be geoscanned by helicopter: Langangen to Rugtvedt, Dørdal to Tvedestrand and Arendal to Grimstad.

They are about to bewitch China with “geotechnology” that no one had thought of, but it all began by chance, with a love story

Technology that can scan for the risk of landslides from the air can save developers a lot of expense. Though if EMerald Geomodelling’s founder, Andi Pfaffhuber, hadn’t happened to fall in love, nothing might have come of it.