Monitoring and Assessing the Environmental Impact of Mining in Europe Using Advanced Earth Observation Techniques - MINEO

摘要

MINEO is a shared-cost action for Research and Technological Development contracted on January 2000 with EU DG Information Society Technologies in the frame of the Fifth Framework programme for Research and Technological Development. MINEO aims at assessing and monitoring the environmental impact of mining activities, using the most advanced Earth observation techniques, and in particular hyperspectral remote-sensing sensors. During an airborne survey six mining areas, five within Europe and one in Greenland have been scanned by HyMap, a hyperspectral scanner build by the Australian company Integrated Spectronics. The firsts MINEO results have shown the very high potential of hyperspectral imagery in mining-related contamination and impact mapping in various vegetated European environments, either ⅰ) directly through mineral- and rock-mapping of the mining waste and residues and related contaminated areas; or ⅱ) indirectly, through the mapping of mining induced vegetation stress or contamination. The objective of the Austrian test site "Steirischer Erzberg" was the development of combined Remote Sensing and GIS tools for mining site rehabilitation and reforestation in an Alpine environment. The first results of the Alpine test site are presented in this paper.