Patent ID: 8125529

Claim:
A system for using positioning information to image vehicles in an open-pit mine, the system comprising: a plurality of land-based transmitters at different known locations in or by the open-pit mine; a plurality of cameras each steerable along at least two axes, the cameras positioned at or by respective land-based transmitters such that updates for the known locations of the land-based transmitters correspond to camera locations, the cameras operable to zoom; a management processor operable to determine locations of a plurality of vehicles in or by the open-pit mine as a function of signals transmitted from the land-based transmitters at the known locations and received at the vehicles; and a display operable to display a graphical representation of the locations of the vehicles; wherein the management processor is operable to steer the plurality of cameras to a first one of the vehicles and to zoom the plurality of cameras as a function of distances from the cameras to the first one of the vehicles, and wherein the display is operable to display images from the plurality of cameras, the images showing the first one of the vehicles from different angles such that four sides of the first one of the vehicles are shown in the images.