- Release Date:
- 22nd May 2025
- KBA Summary:
- This Knowledge Base Article describes the functionality of the Underground ENVIROTrack™ dashboard in BlastIQ™ Insights.
Summary
The BlastIQ™ Insights Underground ENVIROTrack™ dashboard aims to provide an intuitive and easy-to-use interface. It delivers automated reporting of blast-related vibration and air blast events, ensuring compliance monitoring with ease. It delivers automated reporting of blast-related vibration and air blast events, ensuring compliance monitoring with ease. Learn how to configure ENVIROTrack™ here.
Navigation
To navigate to the ENVIROTrack™ dashboard:
- From the BlastIQ™ Insights toolbar, select ENVIROTrack.
Terminology
POI (Point of Interest)
The physical location where vibration and Air Over Pressure measuring devices are placed.
AOP (Air Over Pressure)
Displayed in decibels (dBL). Refers to the air pressure changes generated by a blast, measured using specific instrument.
VPPV (Vector Sum Peak Particle Velocity)
A single value that summarises the ground vibration amplitude of the event/measurement.
Peak X, Y, Z
The peak values of each axis of a triaxial geophone (ground vibration)
Dominant Frequency X, Y, Z
The frequency that describes the vibration of each axis of a triaxial geophone.
Filters
Blasts can be filtered using the following filters:
- Blast Name Search Filter:
- Type in the search box.
- Blasts shown are the ones containing the typed-in characters.
- Blast Status Filter:
- Select: All, Fired or Not Fired.
- Date Range filter:
- Select Created or Fired Date.
- From and To fields are not mandatory.
- If the date range filter is not used, the blasts shown are the latest created/fired for the site.
- Maximum number of blasts shown is based on the Display Filter.
- Elevation filter:
- Choose a minimum and a maximum elevation.
- Select Collar or Grade.
- If an elevation filter is not used, the blasts show an elevation range.
- Maximum number of blasts shown is based on the Display Filter.
- Tags filter:
- Click on the Tags icon.
- Select the desired tags from each category.
- Click Apply to apply the filter criteria.
- It will return the blasts containing the selected tags based on the following logic:
- OR for tags within the same category.
- AND for tags across categories.
- Click on Clear and then Apply to clear all tags filters.
- Click on the X on the top right to close the tags filter; any edits to the filter criteria will be lost if not previously applied.
Read more about Tags here.
- Clear All filters - clears any filters that have been applied.
- Display selection:
- Choose 30, 60, 90 blasts and Newest or Oldest blasts from the dropdown list.
- This dictates the limit of blasts that are shown from other filters criteria and whether these blasts are picked from oldest first or newest first.
Information
The following information is shown on the Underground ENVIROTrack™ Dashboard:
- Filter Bar.
- Blast Selector.
- View.
- Map View.
- Table View.
- Point of Interest (POI).
- Plan Summary.
- Map
- Measurements.
- Layers.
- Display.
- Ground Vibration.
- Air Over Pressure (AOP).
Detailed information on each section:
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Filter Bar
- Filtering by blasts using multiple criteria.
- For comprehensive details, please navigate to the Filters section.
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Blast Selector
- The blast selector drop-down will display all blasts that match the applied primary filter.
- Selecting a blast removes it from the drop-down list and automatically updates the plan summary, map, and table view will automatically update to reflect the relevant information.
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View
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Map View
- Navigate to the view selector.
- Select "Map View"
- Blast boundaries are colour-coded based on the selected POI, with each colour representing a specific threshold.
- Hovering over a blast will display its name, date and time, as well as VPPV and AOP details.
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Table View
- Navigate to the view selector.
- Select "Table View".
- Table view will be visible and show relevant data.
- Use the search boxes to filter the data.
- Click on the column headers to sort.
- You can download by clicking the download button to initiate a CSV file download.
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Map View
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Point of Interest
- The drop-down list displays all the available POI.
- Upon selecting a POI, the map, ground vibration, and air over pressure details will automatically update to display the relevant data.
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Plan Summary
- Displays the total blast count, including a breakdown of how many are fired and open.
- Additionally, it shows the number of blasts with recorded data and their percentage.
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Map
- Hovering over a blast reveals its details.
- For fired blasts, the name, fired date and time, VPPV, and AOP are displayed.
- For blasts that have not been fired, the name and "Not Fired" status are shown, with VPPV and AOP displayed as "--".
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Measurements
- Click the measurements icon located in the lower left-hand corner.
- Click anywhere on the map to draw points.
- Lines should automatically connect the points.
- The aggregated distance of the drawn lines will be visible.
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Layers
- Click on the layers icon.
- Choose "Image Overlays" or "Polylines" from the available options.
- Select "None" for no layers displays. To upload polylines and image overlays, please visit the Site Map article here and navigate to the Layer Administration section.
- Display
- Blast Name
- Select "On" to display the blast name on the map.
- Select "Off" to hide blast name on the map.
- Background
- The user can choose to change the map background to allow better visualisation of the blasts of interest from the following options:
- Select "Satellite" to set a satellite image as your map background.
- Select "Light" to give your map a white background.
- Select "Dark" to give your map a dark background.
- The user can choose to change the map background to allow better visualisation of the blasts of interest from the following options:
- Blast Name
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Ground Vibration
- Displays ground vibration data for recorded fired blasts.
- Helps monitor vibration levels to assess site conditions and compliance.
- Vertical Axis: Represents VPPV(mm/s), a measure of vibration velocity.
- Horizontal Axis: Represents the fired blasts and sorted from oldest to newest (left to right) based on fired date.
- Alert limits are visually marked to indicate exceedances.
- Each bar represents VVPV readings for a specific blast.
- Hovering over a data point displays the blast name, firing date and time, and recorded VPPV value.
- Percentage summaries indicate how many blasts fall within different vibration levels.
- Map view changes when the Ground Vibration (mm/s) label is clicked.
- Threshold definitions:
- Limit (Red Line): Indicates the maximum allowable vibration level. Exceeding this limit may lead to regulatory non-compliance and an increased risk of structural damage or community disturbance.
- Alert (Black Dashed Line): Serves as a proactive warning level, often set below the maximum limit, to prompt early intervention and adjustments before reaching critical thresholds.
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Air Over Pressure
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- Helps monitor air over pressure for compliance.
- Vertical Axis: Represents AOP level (dBL) measuring air pressure changes from blasts.
- Horizontal Axis: Represents the fired blasts and sorted from oldest to newest (left to right) based on fired date.
- Each bar represents AOP readings for a specific blast.
- Hovering over a data point displays the blast name, firing date, and time, as well as shows the blast name, firing date, and time, as well as recorded AOP (dBL).
- Percentage summaries indicate how many blasts fall into each pressure category.
- Map view changes when clicking the Air Over Pressure (dBL) label.
- Threshold definitions:
- Limit (Red Line): Indicates the maximum allowable air over-pressure level. Exceeding this limit may lead to regulatory non-compliance and an increased risk of structural damage or community disturbance.
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How does blast-event association works?
Once a blast is marked as ‘Fired’ in the ‘Blast Management’ tab, the system will automatically attempt to associate the blast with its corresponding vibration and or air over pressure event, using a “One Blast One Event” logic.
Association Logic
- A 120 seconds interval will be automatically defined, spanning:
- 60 seconds before the entered blast time, and
- 60 seconds after the entered blast time.
- The system scans this interval for events not yet associated with any blast.
- The blast is then associated with the earliest available event within the defined interval.
- Once associated, measurement data for the blast will be displayed in the corresponding dashboards.
Important Notes
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- In case there are multiple blasts fired within a small window of time, the defined interval might contain more than a single event. In these cases, it is necessary that the blasts are declared as ‘Fired’ in strict chronological order. Since the blasts are associated with the earliest event registered within an automatically defined time interval, failing to do so might lead to a wrong measurement to blast association.
- After setting the blast date and time, it might take up to a minute for the measurement values to show on the ENVIROTrack™ and Quantities dashboards. Refreshing the page might be necessary after this period if results are not shown.