Within the framework of the EU-funded INFACT project, different technologies for mineral exploration with a main focus on airborne geophysics will be tested and their performance measured with respect to the environmental, social and technical benchmarks, which will provide decision-makers in industry with a comparison of system performances and a reference against which emerging exploration technologies can be assessed. This call for tender is about the acquisition of a suite of industry-respected, state-of-the-art airborne geophysical surveys at the project's test sites in southern Spain, including LiDAR for topographic mapping, nadir RGB aerial photography and hyperspectral imaging (HS VNIR, HS SWIR, HS LWIR) for mineral and alteration mapping.

The request service are the platform installation and mobilisation of the following airborne Systems: LIDAR, RGB, HS VNIR SWIR and LWIR. Services include aircraft, sensors and pre-processing. Current planning is to perform the surveys around June/July 2020 within the areas (ca. 350 km2). The airborne survey should be carried out on separate days to allow for the accompanying ground validation work, which will be performed by HZDR.