Monitoring the extent of contamination from acid mine drainage in the iberian pyrite belt (SW Spain) using hyperspectral imagery

Remote Sensing

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2166-2186

  Riaza, Asuncion ^a   Buzzi, Jorge ^a   García Meléndez, Eduardo ^b   Carrère, Veronique ^c   Müller, Andreas ^d  

^a INSTITUTO GEOLÓGICO Y MINERO DE ESPAÑA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEÓN   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

^d GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acid mine drainage; Geology; Imaging spectroscopy; Pyrite weathering

Indexed keywords

ACID DRAINAGE; ACID MINE DRAINAGE; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; EUROPEAN COMMUNITY; EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT; EUROPEAN UNION; EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRY; HYPERSPECTRAL; HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE ANALYSIS; HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERY; HYPERSPECTRAL REMOTE SENSING; HYPERSPECTRAL REMOTE SENSING DATA; IBERIAN PYRITE BELT; IMAGING SPECTROSCOPY; METAL CONTAMINATION; MINE SITE; MINE WASTES; MONITORING TOOLS; OXIDATION STAGES; PYRITE WEATHERING; RESEARCH CENTRES; SALT EFFLORESCENCE; SEMIARID AREA; SOLUBLE SALTS; SPACE-BORNE; SPECTRAL DATA; SPECTRAL LIBRARIES; SULFIDE DEPOSIT; SULFIDE OXIDATION; SW SPAIN; TEST SITE;

ABANDONED MINES; ARID REGIONS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DRYING; GEOLOGY; IMAGE PROCESSING; MINERALOGY; MINERALS; REMOTE SENSING; SOFTWARE TESTING; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WATER POLLUTION CONTROL;

SOLID WASTES;

EID: 84856701840     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs3102166     Document Type: Article

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