The mining industry has been operating across the globe for millennia, but it is only in the
last 50 years that remote sensing technology has enabled the visualization, mapping and …

This paper focuses on vegetation health conditions (VHC) assessment and mapping using
high resolution airborne hyperspectral AVIRIS-NG imagery and validated with field …

Considering the negative impact of mining on ecosystems in mining areas, the South African
government legislated the Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act (No. 28 of …

Detection, classification and monitoring of surface mining region from satellite images have
vast challenges. Surface mining industry has huge effect on social, economical, ecological …

Vegetation restoration is a fundamental method of ecological reconstruction in disturbed
areas, and revegetation can be achieved by passive (spontaneous succession) and active …

As open-cut coal mines progress towards closure, mining companies have an obligation to
provide certainty to stakeholders that their rehabilitated landscapes have the capacity to …

Mining has the potential to affect the environment and communities throughout the life cycle
of a project. Those impacts, whether direct, indirect or cumulative, make many project …

The usefulness of red edge bands, and vegetation indices based on red edge bands, for
vegetation health monitoring has already been demonstrated. There are some satellites …

Classification and monitoring of surface mining areas have various research challenges.
Surface mining produces various land classes such as, quarry, dump, overburden dump …

Sustainable management of land requires regular acquisition of qualitative information
regarding the status of its use. It is especially important to track the changes relating to the …