Application of Remote Sensing Techniques in the Analysis of Abandoned Mine Lands

摘要

The report assesses the utility and significance of remote sensing procedures for the analysis of abandoned mine lands (AML) as defined by the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977. Emphasis is given to factors which condition the type of remote sensing approaches which can be used to detect abandoned mine land characteristics. Among the more significant are legal, health and safety, environmental/ecological, cultural, and historical. The report introduces the abandoned mine land problem and reviews some of the fundamentals of remote sensing, including technological aspects (e.g. platforms, instrumentation, film, etc.) which may be pertinent to detecting characteristics of abandoned mine lands. Several strategies are presented which can be used to manually interpret large, medium, and small-scale imagery for AML data extraction. In addition, attention is given to the role of various computer-assisted procedures in the analysis of remotely sensed data.