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TitleSustainable management and rehabilitation of mine sites for decision support - remote sensing innovations and applications
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LicencePlease note the adoption of the Open Government Licence - Canada supersedes any previous licences.
AuthorWhite, H PORCID logo (ed.); Abuelgasim, A (ed.)
SourceGeomatics Canada, Bulletin 1, 2013, 97 pages, https://doi.org/10.4095/291594 Open Access logo Open Access
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Year2013
PublisherNatural Resources Canada
Documentserial
Lang.English
Mediaon-line; digital
File formatreadme / lisez-moi
File formatpdf; txt; rtf
ProvinceNova Scotia; Ontario; British Columbia; Saskatchewan
NTS11F/04; 41I/06; 41I/07; 41I/10; 41I/11; 42A/05; 42A/06; 42A/11; 42A/12; 74H/04; 92G/11
AreaTimmins; Sudbury; Seal Harbour; Britannia Beach; Key Lake
Lat/Long WENS -62.0000 -61.5000 45.2500 45.0000
Lat/Long WENS -81.5000 -80.5000 46.7500 46.2500
Lat/Long WENS -82.0000 -81.0000 48.6667 48.3333
Lat/Long WENS-105.5000 -105.5000 57.2500 57.0000
Lat/Long WENS-123.5000 -123.0000 49.7500 49.5000
Subjectsenvironmental geology; geophysics; Economics and Industry; mining properties; mine site rehabilitation; smelters; remote sensing; environmental impacts; environmental analysis; heavy metals contamination; mine waste products; waste disposal; radioactive waste disposal; waste management; Key Lake Mine; Falconbridge Mine; Copper Cliff Mine; Kam Kotia Mine; Britannia Mine
Illustrationstables; spectra
ProgramEnvironmental Geoscience Coal & Oil Resources Environmental Sustainability
Released2013 04 05
AbstractWaste byproducts of mining activities can have environmental, social, and economic impacts. In some cases, resulting elevated concentrations of heavy metals and acid-generating tailings leave an environmental footprint that requires long-term monitoring of remediation efforts to prevent or reduce the degradation of surrounding ecosystems. In other examples, the presence of toxic, and sometimes radioactive, wastes can pose immediate health risks to nearby communities through dust dispersal and surface-water and groundwater contamination, and longer-term danger with contaminant transport throughout the regional environment. There are an estimated 27 000 orphaned and abandoned mines across Canada, and billions of dollars of remediation liability for acid-mine drainage, disruption of critical habitats, and related socio-economic impacts. Since 1991, legislation in Canada requires the mining industry to supply detailed procedures for the long-term management of mine-waste sites.
Information-extraction techniques exploiting Earth Observation and remote sensing data, in the form of software tools and processing methodologies, are discussed. The remote sensing data available for this study include airborne and satellite synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery, multispectral and broadband optical satellite imagery, and airborne and satellite hyperspectral imagery (imaging spectrometry), and in some cases multitemporal data sets are utilized. Several in situ data sets were collected to develop and validate the techniques. Sites discussed in this study include Seal Harbour, Nova Scotia; Britannia Beach, British Columbia; Key Lake, Saskatchewan; and Sudbury, Ontario.
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