SATELLITE IMAGE BASED STRATEGIES TO EVALUATE THE IMPACT OF DISMISSED MINE SITE – AN APPLICATION TO THE MAE MOH COAL MINE AREA IN THE LAMPANG PROVINCE, THAILAND

摘要

Aim of the study was the development on an integrated set of procedures based on the collection andthe analysis of remote sensed data in order to evaluate the effect of rehabilitation of land contaminatedby extractive industry activities and to perform a monitoring and registration of the environmentalimpact of such operations by the application and the integration of modern information technologies,as Earth Observation (EO) and Geographic Information Systems (GIS). The study was developed inthe framework of the EU-Asia program of the European union (EXTRACT-IT Project – ContractNo: CN/ASIA IT&C/006 (89870): Application of Information Technologies for the sustainablemanagement of Extractive industry activities) and it was addressed to three different dismissed mineareas in India, Thailand and China, respectively. The results of the study, in terms of methodologiesselected, strategies applied and results obtained, are described with particular reference to Mae Mohcoal mine area in the Lampang Province, Thailand.