Keyword

cave exploration

Description: The exploration of natural cave systems, undertaken as recreation, scientific investigation, or a form of outdoor adventure activity.

Primary topic: Karst Systems and Hydrogeology (35%)

Wikidata ID: wiki/Q200341

OpenAlex ID: keywords/caving

Rock mechanics for underground mining

1986 · Brady, Barry H. G. 1942-, Brown, Edwin T. · Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology · 1,402

Introductory mining engineering

2002 · Howard L. Hartman, Jan M. Mutmansky · 417

Deep Mining: A Rock Engineering Challenge

2019 · Horst Wagner · Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering · 320

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Encyclopedia of caves

2012 · William B. White, David C. Culver · Digital Commons - University of South Florida (University of South Florida) · 212

Flying insect inspired vision for autonomous aerial robot maneuvers in near-earth environments

2004 · W.E. Green, P.Y. Oh, et al. · Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation/Proceedings · 146

Nature/Person Transactions During An Outdoor Adventure Experience: A Multi-Phasic Analysis

1998 · Norman McIntyre, Joseph W. Roggenbuck · Journal of Leisure Research · 142

Cave mining - the state of the art

1994 · D. H. Laubscher · Journal of the Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy · 140

1998 · D. Okland, J.M. Cook · SPE/ISRM Rock Mechanics in Petroleum Engineering · 131

Caves

1996 · David Gillieson · Wiley eBooks · 126

Key technologies and equipment for a fully mechanized top-coal caving operation with a large mining height at ultra-thick coal seams

2015 · Jinhua Wang, Bin Yu, et al. · International Journal of Coal Science & Technology · 115

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Some Challenges of Deep Mining † †This paper was written shortly after this author had presented a video lecture titled “Why rock mechanics and rock engineering?” at the invitation of the ISRM. The lecture addressed the more general topic of the importance of rock engineering in the 21st century, and may be of interest as complementary to this article. The lecture (~ 45min) may be heard at https://www.isrm.net/gca/?id=1309.

2017 · Charles Fairhurst · Engineering · 112

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Heterogeneous Ground and Air Platforms, Homogeneous Sensing: Team CSIRO Data61's Approach to the DARPA Subterranean Challenge

2022 · Nicolas Hudson, Fletcher Talbot, et al. · Field Robotics · 109

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Mechanism of caving in longwall coal mining

2020 · M.D.G. Salamon · CRC Press eBooks · 105

Multirobot Tree and Graph Exploration

2011 · Peter Brass, Flavio Cabrera-Mora, et al. · IEEE Transactions on Robotics · 100

Histoplasmosis Associated With Exploring a Bat-inhabited Cave in Costa Rica, 1998–1999

2004 · GEORGE M. LYON, ANA V. BRAVO, et al. · American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene · 100

Spelunking, Simulation, and Slime

1997 · Kendall Walton · 92

Large-Scale Exploration of Cave Environments by Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

2021 · Pavel Petracek, Vit Kratky, et al. · IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters · 89

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Sublevel caving

1966 · I. Janelid, R. Kvapil · International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences & Geomechanics Abstracts · 81

Soft Tensegrity Robot Driven by Thin Artificial Muscles for the Exploration of Unknown Spatial Configurations

2022 · Ryota Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Nabae, et al. · IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters · 76

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Rock mass characterization and assessment of block-forming geological discontinuities during caving of primary copper ore at the El Teniente mine, Chile

2006 · A. Brzovic, E. Villaescusa · International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences · 73

A Brief History of Karst Hydrogeology: Contributions of the Nss

2007 · William B. White · 70

Autonomous Cave Surveying With an Aerial Robot

2021 · Wennie Tabib, Kshitij Goel, et al. · IEEE Transactions on Robotics · 66

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Overlying strata structural modeling and support applicability analysis for large mining-height stopes

2018 · Zhijie Wen, Enrui Xing, et al. · Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries · 66

National Speleological Society

1954 · G. Nicholas · Science · 66

Earth politics: Territory and the subterranean – Introduction to the special issue

2021 · Andrea Marston, Matthew Himley · Political Geography · 65

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Citation count: 11,950