New technology aims for tailings monitoring from space Yankee Doodle tailings pond in Montana, USA. (Reference image by James St. John, Flickr). A tailings dam motion monitor service that has been developed by researchers at the University of Nottingham and Terra Motion is now available to mining companies through Geospatial Insight, a company that provides business intelligence sourced from satellite imagery. According to the organizations involved in the project, the service – called MotionMonitor-TSF – is designed to track ground movements in and around mine tailings facilities to provide early warnings of any potential structural failure. Sign Up for the Suppliers Digest