
Satellite Based Geospatial Technologies Mining
Authentic and legitimate evidence gathering in governance and technical audit of mining area:
- Mining
- illegal mining activity outside the lease area
- Prohibited mining
- Mining area extent monitoring with reference to timeline
- Mining dumps and overburden material
- Ore transportation routes
- Environmental impacts due to mining
- Deforestation
- landscape degradation
- alteration of stream and river morphology
- siltation of water bodies
- biodiversity loss
- Impact on agriculture lands
- Reclamation : Process of returning mining areas to their previous state or better
- Backfilling the mined area with overburden
- Re-establishing the original landscape
- Replacing topsoil and preparing the surface for plantation
- Monitoring vegetation growth
- Re-establishing original biodiversity ( flora, fauna and wildlife )