Remote sensing of mine site rehabilitation for ecological outcomes: A global systematic review

PB McKenna, AM Lechner, S Phinn, PD Erskine - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
The mining industry has been operating across the globe for millennia, but it is only in the
last 50 years that remote sensing technology has enabled the visualization, map** and …

Coal's legacy in Appalachia: Lands, waters, and people

CE Zipper, J Skousen - The Extractive Industries and Society, 2021 - Elsevier
For more than a century, the coal-mining industry has been a major economic force and
employer in the Appalachian region of eastern USA. As national and global energy …

Map** cropland extent of Southeast and Northeast Asia using multi-year time-series Landsat 30-m data using a random forest classifier on the Google Earth Engine …

AJ Oliphant, PS Thenkabail, P Teluguntla… - International Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Cropland extent maps are useful components for assessing food security. Ideally, such
products are a useful addition to countrywide agricultural statistics since they are not …

Agricultural cropland extent and areas of South Asia derived using Landsat satellite 30-m time-series big-data using random forest machine learning algorithms on the …

MK Gumma, PS Thenkabail, PG Teluguntla… - GIScience & Remote …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT The South Asia (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bhutan) has
a staggering 900 million people (~ 43% of the population) who face food insecurity or severe …

[HTML][HTML] Map** the yearly extent of surface coal mining in Central Appalachia using Landsat and Google Earth Engine

AA Pericak, CJ Thomas, DA Kroodsma, MF Wasson… - PloS one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Surface mining for coal has taken place in the Central Appalachian region of the United
States for well over a century, with a notable increase since the 1970s. Researchers have …

Early detection of invasive exotic trees using UAV and manned aircraft multispectral and LiDAR Data

JP Dash, MS Watt, TSH Paul, J Morgenroth… - Remote Sensing, 2019 - mdpi.com
Exotic conifers can provide significant ecosystem services, but in some environments, they
have become invasive and threaten indigenous ecosystems. In New Zealand, this …

Identification of the disturbance and trajectory types in mining areas using multitemporal remote sensing images

Z Yang, J Li, CE Zipper, Y Shen, H Miao… - Science of the total …, 2018 - Elsevier
Surface coal mining disturbances affect the local ecology, human populations and
environmental quality. Thus, much public attention has been focused on mining issues and …

Mines to forests? Analyzing long‐term recovery trends for surface coal mines in Central Appalachia

CJ Thomas, RK Shriver, F Nippgen… - Restoration …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Mountaintop removal mining, and other surface mining operations have severe, large‐scale
impacts on the communities and ecosystems of Appalachia. The impact of this disturbance …

Integrated electrochemical Chip-on-Plant functional sensor for monitoring gene expression under stress

R Pandey, O Teig-Sussholz, S Schuster, A Avni… - Biosensors and …, 2018 - Elsevier
The ability to interact with plants, both to sense and to actuate, would open new
opportunities for precision agriculture. These interactions can be achieved by using the plant …

Changes detected in the extent of surface mining and reclamation using multitemporal Landsat imagery: a case study of Jiu Valley, Romania

I Vorovencii - Environmental monitoring and assessment, 2021 - Springer
Surface mining represents the dominant driver of land coverage changes in the Jiu Valley
mining area in Romania. Detecting and quantifying active mines and reclaimed areas are …