Integration of Environmental Information in a Mining Region Using a Geoportal

Abstract

At present, the complex nature of the impact on the ecosystem in regions with intensive mining creates a multidimensional information “plume” consisting of data on mineral reserves, the state of mining operations, accumulated, current and future environmental pollution. The transition to the lean use of the subsoil and the reasonable disposal of mining waste requires fundamentally new forms of environmental information accumulation and processing during designing new enterprises and regulating the activities of existing ones. The most promising form of information support for the greening of mining is a geoportal. It is a complex of software and technological support for working with spatial data. Its key task is to provide the users with tools and services for storing and cataloging, publishing and loading spatial and environmental data, searching and filtering by metadata, interactive web visualization, direct access to geodata based on map web services.

Mining Geomatics

“…This will make it possible to search for those articles whose content presents the results of analyses of mining spatial data acquired by various measurement methods, processed by means of information systems and presented on the web. It would certainly be very helpful if articles on topics such as the development of a mining dataset [108], the use of a geoportal to present mining data [109], methods for assessing the impact of mining using GIS and remote sensing technologies [110] and the use of remote sensing in post-mining areas [111] could be included in one listing when searching using the keyword "mining geomatics". The use of this term in a keyword system is bound to isolate a fairly coherent category of articles on the same topic.…”