July 21, 2025
Spatial Insights By Outline Global For The Global Resources Innovation Expo – GRX25
The best way to predict the future is to invent it. Outline Global’s solutions and achievements lead the way in how mining and resources companies are embracing innovation, technology, and sustainability.
Previously called the Austmine Conference and Exhibition, the Global Resources Innovation Expo, a.k.a. GRX, is about transforming the mining and resources industry through innovation, technology, and sustainability. There are multiple factors for this transformative change, including:
• Regulatory pressure to reduce carbon emissions, reduce waste, and protect biodiversity
• The need to become more productive and efficient. AI and data analytics help companies improve operational efficiency, lower maintenance costs, and optimize resource extraction
• Workflow transformation such as remote operation systems
Hosted at the spacious Brisbane Conference and Exhibition centre, #GRX25 delves into the digital revolution, showcasing groundbreaking technologies redefining the resources sector. GRX25 is built around three main themes:
1. New thinking, strategies, and technologies in mining
2. How different regions are advancing sustainability by adopting new thinking, strategies, and technologies
3. The importance of innovation as a strategic imperative to developing new technologies to driving growth, profitability, and change
Outline Global understands the importance of innovative technology accelerating a sustainable, technology-led future for the global resources industry. The following examples show how aerial imagery and delivering insights helps mining companies in their transformation process to become more sustainable.
How Outline Global is introducing new thinking, strategies and technologies
Mining regulations are transforming the resources industry. For example, each operative mine needs to have a Mining Closure Plan in place, which states what happens to the site after it closes down, and what activities will be undertaken to account for the environmental impact of all mining activities.
Outline Global automates the delivery of insights that form the basis for risk assessment and measures to mitigate these, as notated in Mining Closure Plans. For example, Outline Global’s AI-based automated disturbance mapping service analyses large volumes of data to extract drill pads and tracks for the accounting of total disturbed lands.
How Outline Global helps clients apply innovative approaches and transformative technologies
Companies preparing mining closure proposals depend on accurate, reliable, and up-to-date environmental data of a mining site to identify stressed vegetation , or where active erosion will require mitigation. Outline Global captures high-resolution aerial imagery and provides clients with reliable insights derived from that data.
Automated environmental insights save time, are more accurate/consistent and yield the insights required to take informed decisions for regulatory compliance.
Groundbreaking technology that drives growth, profitability, and change
Innovative new technology, such as machine learning, is used to detect environmental features, beating human operators in terms of speed, costs, and reliability. Outline Global has developed multiple workflows enabling protected species habitat detection, invasive flora species identification, and fire ant nest detection.
For example, Outline Global has helped several mining companies identify ground dwelling Malleefowl nests beneath vegetation on their mining tenements using LiDAR. The bird is listed as vulnerable under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act 1999 and recognised as threatened wherever it occurs.
Outline Global developed EQBE (Environmental Quality Block Engine), an AI solution that delivers multiple insights essential for monitoring or revegetation. As one of the EQBE insights, Malleefowl Nest Detection is helping resource companies by more effectively identifying nest sites and reducing man hours conducing field surveys.