Monitoring of abandoned quarries by remote sensing and in situ surveying

Bonifazi, Giuseppe; Cutaia, Laura; Massacci, P.; Roselli, Ivan

doi:10.1016/s0304-3800(03)00228-x

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“…Limestone mining creates large disturbances that significantly impact soil, vegetation and fauna and result in habitat fragmentation and loss (Sort and Alcañiz, 1996;Clemente et al, 2004;Moreno-Peñaranda et al, 2004). Reclamation of limestone quarries, despite being an environmental necessity and mandatory in many countries, has had limited success (Bonifazi et al, 2003;Allen et al, 2005), particularly when the goal is to achieve predisturbance conditions (Wunderle, 1997).…”

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Erosion control blankets, organic amendments and site variability influenced the initial plant community at a limestone quarry in the Canadian Rocky Mountains

Cohen-Fernandez

Naeth

2013

Biogeosciences

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Season of seeding and soil amendment with manure mix, wood shavings and erosion control blankets were evaluated over two growing seasons to determine their effect on soil properties and native grass establishment at a Canadian limestone quarry and lime processing plant. A season (fall, spring) of soil amending and seeding did not significantly affect revegetation or soil properties. Site characteristics such as slope, aspect, initial soil nutrients and surrounding plant communities influenced early plant community development and overall effects of soil treatments. Erosion control blankets resulted in the highest seeded plant cover and the lowest non-seeded plant cover despite not significantly changing soil chemical properties. Total nitrogen and carbon significantly increased establishment of seeded grasses and non-seeded species. Increased nitrogen and carbon in the constructed soils were best achieved through addition of manure. Wood shavings did not favour establishment of vegetation and resulted in similar, and in some cases less, vegetation than the controls. Assisted revegetation increased plant cover from < 6 to 50% and reduced cover of non-seeded species. Amendments that modified both chemical and physical soil conditions were best to increase vegetation establishment in the harsh conditions of the quarry

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Erosion control blankets, organic amendments and site variability influenced the initial plant community at a limestone quarry in the Canadian Rocky Mountains

Cohen-Fernandez

Naeth

2013

Biogeosciences

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“…The nearest weather station (<5 km) from the reclamation area, Ulan Water (weather station number 062036), has records of annual rainfall for 2000, 2001, 2003only (BOM 2013. For the remainder of the years, average rainfall data from Mudgee Airport AWS Bureau station (weather station number 062101) which is ~ 37 kms from the study site was collected and plotted in Fig.…”

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“…Monitoring mine site rehabilitation and progressive growth of planted vegetation, can be achieved through remote imagery of the mine site and the surrounding area (McPherson, 2006), The common remote sensing methodology for monitoring and evaluating the status of the vegetative areas surrounding mining areas involves use of different spectral derivatives including band ratios and vegetation indices, such as the normalised difference vegetation index (NDVI), Hyperspectral remote sensing imagery from the Compact Airborne Spectrographic Imager (casi) and Probe -1 have been used effectively for monitoring the revegetation of mine tailings (Lévesque and Staenz, 2008), However, use of hyperspectral data is restricted due to its sparse availability, limited coverage (Lefsky et al, 2001), higher cost and complex processing (Varshney and Arora, 2004), Multispectral Landsat images are also capable of providing useful information for the assessment of mine restoration progress (Bonifazi et al, 2003;Cutaia et al, 2004;Bonifazi and Serranti, 2007;Petropoulos et al Bao et al (2012) used images of SPOT satellites to investigate seasonal changes in the percentage of vegetation cover of rehabilitation areas for a gold mine in Queensland, Australia.…”

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Satellite based mine rehabilitation monitoring using WorldView-2 imagery

2013

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Remote sensing technology has increased in both application and significance over the past decade, and now pronnises an improved observation strategy for enhanced mine environmental management. However, its utilisation as a common monitoring tool within the mining industry is less prevalent than for other primary production seotors such as agriculture and forestry. This research investigates the application of multispectral WorldView-2 (WV2) imagery to map surface rehabilitation at the Ulan Coal Mines Limited (UCML), Australia, This new concept for monitoring a rehabilitation process focuses on the assessment of discrete mine site environments by mapping vegetation health using the Normalised Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) as an indicator. This satellite based approach clearly identifies subtle changes in vegetation composition and health across an otherwise homogenous revegetated surface and proves a valuable addition for mine rehabilitation management.

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“…A number of published research papers have proven remote sensing a useful tool in monitoring and assessing environmental impacts caused by quarrying. Bonifazi et al (2003) conducted a study to determine the capability of remote sensing to monitor abandoned limestone quarries. The study proved remote sensing to be an effective tool for monitoring such quarries and for surveying their evolution over time.…”

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Assessing Land Cover Changes Caused by Granite Quarrying Using Remote Sensing

Moeletsi

Tesfamichael

2017

Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.

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Dimension stone quarrying in the area between Rustenburg and Brits in the North West Province of South Africa has been in existence for over 70 decades. The unique characteristics of the granite deposits in South Africa resulted in making the country a global producer of the granite rocks. This led to intensified quarrying activities between Rustenburg and Brits town. However, this surface mining method, has a potential to impact the environment in a negative way causing loss in vegetation, depletion of natural resources, loss of scenic beauty and contamination of surface water resources. To assess the land cover changes caused by granite quarrying activities, remotely sensed data in the form of Landsat images between 1998 and 2015 were used. Supervised classification was used to create maps. Accuracy assessment using Google Earth TM as a reference data yielded an overall accuracy of 78%. The post classification change detection method was used to assess land cover changes within the granite quarries. Granite quarries increased by 1174.86 ha while formation of quarry lakes increased to 5.3 ha over the 17-year period. Vegetation cover decreased by 1308 ha in area while 18.3 ha bare land was lost during the same period. This study demonstrated the utility of remote sensing to detect changes in land cover within granite quarries.

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Monitoring of abandoned quarries by remote sensing and in situ surveying

Cited by 28 publications

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Erosion control blankets, organic amendments and site variability influenced the initial plant community at a limestone quarry in the Canadian Rocky Mountains

Erosion control blankets, organic amendments and site variability influenced the initial plant community at a limestone quarry in the Canadian Rocky Mountains

Satellite based mine rehabilitation monitoring using WorldView-2 imagery

Assessing Land Cover Changes Caused by Granite Quarrying Using Remote Sensing

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