The prospect of using satellite data to monitor the impact of mining waste on environment

Remote sensing of chemical anomalies in the atmosphere in influence zone of Korkino open pit coal mine

“…The remote sensing techniques reduce by several times the amount of ground surveys [7]. On the other hand, the ground surveys are equipped with an exhaustive regulatory framework to ensure a unified approach to studying the quality of the environment components irrespective of the territory size under analysis.…”

“…In this case, creation of GIS is the most effective way, which allows not only preserving the available and readily accessible data but also enables simulation, the results of which can be combined with the geographical and space images of the region under study [7,8].The main tool that combines subsystems into integrated GIS is the Arclnfo…”