Coal is one of the primary sources of energy in India, which are generally extracted through open cast mining. However, coal mining activities, particularly open cast mining methods are known to result in adverse environmental impacts such as vegetation loss, air pollution, ground water contamination along with changes in land use land cover (LULC) features. Hence, reliable temporal data on the impact of mining activities are required to aid in mine reclamation and management efforts. Assessment of LULC changes over the last two decades was carried out in Ramagundam coalfield, using Google Earth Engine (GEE) integrated with Geographical Information System (GIS). Landsat 5 and Landsat 8 multispectral satellite data from 2001 to 2021 with <5% cloud cover was used to classify LULC classes. The different land use classes are classified in GEE through supervised classification using Classification And Regression Tree (CART) classifier. The study indicates that mining area has increased to 298% (from 15.20 km 2 to 60.50 km 2 ) from 2001 to 2021 and significantly reduces other classes. The outcome of this study could be useful to the coal industry/company to carefully monitoring the effects of mining. This study will aid policy makers and environmentalists in understanding nature of change in LULC features in the area.
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