THE PROGRESS IN DETECTING OF COAL FIRE ON REMOTE SENSING THE FIRST RESULT OF THE JOINT SINO-GERMAN RESEARCH PROJECT ON INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES FOR EXPLORATION, EXTINCTION AND MONITORING OF COAL FIRES IN NORTH CHINA

摘要

China is one of the countries with a vast coal resource in the world. However, many coalmines in China are seriously endangered by coal fire. These fires occur within a region that stretches over 5000 km east to west and 750 km north to south. About 100-200 million tons of coal is being lost because of coal fires each year. In this paper, we summarized the first result of Joint Sino-German Coal fire Research Project. Mostly focus on the progress we achieved in recent years especially in the field of Remote Sensing, and an outline of how to explore, extinct and monitoring coal fires by use of remote sensing imagery also summarized.