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• Advanced Tutorial on Wireless Communication and Electronic Tracking: Mine Operations Center (MOC)
  5/9/2019 - Training materials
  Section 6 of the OMSHR advanced tutorial on wireless commumnication and electronic tracking covering the mine operations center.
• Advanced Tutorial on Wireless Communication and Electronic Tracking: Electronic Tracking Systems Performance
  5/9/2019 - Training materials
  Section 3 of the OMSHR advanced tutorial on wireless communication and electronic tracking covering electronic tracking systems performance.
• Integration of Sensing Technologies for Post-Event Monitoring of Hazardous Conditions in the Mining Environment
  11/22/2016 - Contracts and cooperative agreements
  A contract to provide detection of ambient conditions in lesser traversed, remote areas of a mine by way of a repeater system with sensing modules capable of linking into the existing, hardened communications and tracking system.
• Feasibility Study: Vision-Aided Personal Inertial Tracking System for Mining
  7/19/2016 - Contracts and cooperative agreements
  A contract to evaluate the feasibility and utility of recent advances in personal navigation in a realistic mining setting. The project will conduct a field test in a realistic setting using existing equipment that has been adapted to the application.
• Design and Demonstration of a Location Tracking System for Underground Coal Mines (Award 2)
  7/18/2016 - Contracts and cooperative agreements
  A contract to design and demonstrate a location tracking system for underground coal mines using ultra-wideband (UWB) radio technology.
• Design and Demonstration of a Location Tracking System for Underground Coal Mines (Award 1)
  7/18/2016 - Contracts and cooperative agreements
  A contract to develop a miner tracking system based on inertial navigation technology.
• Demonstration of Inertial Sensor Tracking and Communication System
  7/18/2016 - Contracts and cooperative agreements
  A contract to complete a beta test installation of the contractor’s inertial sensor tracking and communication system in a working mine and demonstrate the accuracy, communication capability, and suitability for use in a working coal mine.
• Assessment of Technology for Non-destructive Testing of In-situ Underground Mine Seals
  7/16/2016 - Contracts and cooperative agreements
  A contract to assess four types of existing technology that can be applied to seals in a nondestructive manner under experimental conditions, including radio frequency sensing, ultrasonic sensing, ground penetrating radar, and tracer gas methods.
• Modeling and Measurement of Radio Propagation in Tunnel Environments
  5/1/2016 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  This article by NIOSH discusses a new, simple radio frequency RF testing system that can be conveniently built and used for measuring radio propagation in tunnels.
• Measurement of RF Propagation Around Corners in Underground Mines and Tunnels
  3/1/2016 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  This article from NIOSH reports measurement results for radio frequency RF propagation around 90-degree corners in tunnels and underground mines, for vertically, horizontally, and longitudinally polarized signals.