WSEAS Transactions on Environment and Development
Print ISSN: 1790-5079, E-ISSN: 2224-3496
Volume 15, 2019
Geoecological Monitoring using InSAR Technology
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Abstract: The manuscript is addressed to engineers involved in geoecological monitoring for mining sector. Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar, abbreviated InSAR, is one of the growing technologies that use satellite images in various fields of study such as: lift earth’s crust, digital terrain modelling (DTM), subsidence/strains, landslides or hazards and many others. InSAR can provide extensive monitoring data, from large geographic areas, without using expensive instruments or put humans’ subjects in jeopardy. Most mines can affect the landscapes within different systems, as Geotopes or Geofacies, therefore monitoring the geographic areas from and surrounding a mining perimeter can provide valuable information required for assessing the geoecological effects on the environment. With over a decade experience in mining ecology and many various projects conducted within the Romanian national program of closed mines monitoring, the authors concluded that InSAR Technology combined with geoecological principles represent a good approach to evaluate the severity of mining operations impact referring to topo-stability inabilities of landscape, as a general method. In the same time, for a better understanding, the manuscript presents a case study regarding to tailing ponds topo-stability evaluation as an example of how to link InSAR and Geoecology.
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Pages: 106-112
WSEAS Transactions on Environment and Development, ISSN / E-ISSN: 1790-5079 / 2224-3496, Volume 15, 2019, Art. #12