Monitoring opencast mine restorations using Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) imagery

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 657, Issue , 2019, Pages 1602-1614

  Padró, Joan Cristian ^a   Carabassa, Vicenç ^b   Balagué, Jaume ^c   Brotons, Lluís ^c   Alcañiz, Josep M ^a   Pons, Xavier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b CREAF   (Spain)

^c CENTRE TECNOLÒGIC FORESTAL DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Drone; Mine restoration; Monitoring restoration; Multispectral imagery; UAS; UAV remote sensing; Unmanned Aerial System

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; BUDGET CONTROL; DECISION MAKING; DRONES; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; OPEN PIT MINING; PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION; REMOTE SENSING; RESTORATION; VEGETATION;

DETECTION AND QUANTIFICATIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL LIABILITIES; LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION; MINE RESTORATIONS; MULTI-SPECTRAL IMAGERY; STRUCTURAL INFORMATION; UAV REMOTE SENSING; UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEMS;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

LAND RECLAMATION; MONITORING; MULTISPECTRAL IMAGE; OPENCAST MINING; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; UNMANNED VEHICLE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOCUMENTATION; DUMPING; ECOSYSTEM MONITORING; ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; GRASSLAND; GROUND TRUTH PLOTS; K NEAREST NEIGHBOR; LAND USE; MEASUREMENT; MINING; NONHUMAN; OPENCAST MINING; OPTICAL SENSOR; PHOTOGRAMMETRY; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLOTS AND CURVES; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMOTE SENSING; SCRUB; SOFTWARE; SOIL; SPAIN; SPECTRORADIOMETER; TOPSOIOL; UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEM; VEGETATION;

EID: 85058534751     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.12.156     Document Type: Article

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