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Abstract
GIS, Remote Sensing & Internet Technology: Tool for
Better Mining Applications
Dr Lalan Kumar
SCIENTISTS
CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF MINING AND FUEL RESEARCH,INDIA
LALAN_SEMINAR@YAHOO.CO.IN
P K Mishra
SCIENTISTS
CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF MINING AND FUEL RESEARCH,INDIA
J K Viswakarma
DEPUTY CHIEF MINING ENGINEER
EASTERN COAL FIELDS LIMITED
INDIA
Vijay Singh
SENIOR SUPERINTENDENT OF MINES
NORTHERN COAL FIELDS LIMITED
INDIA
Abstract
Mining industry needs to employ increasingly sophisticated techniques in its search for new reserves. At
the same time, mining companies are becoming more sensitive to environmental issues and are looking
for new tools to help them monitor and reduce the damaging effects of their operations. Keeping basic
two main objectives namely, first as the partners wanted to find ways to use existing data and new remote
sensing data in the search for hidden mineral deposits and secondly they wanted to extend the use of
remote sensing and GIS for the assessment, surveillance and monitoring of the environmental impact and
mining exploration. The main technical challenge was to make the system sufficiently flexible to accommodate
the requirements of all the potential users.New types of remotely sensed data are being announced
every month, it seems. Integration between these data sets and GIS increases annually as well.
GIS and remote sensing consultants, has created an Internet Map Server website designed to educate
miners and the mining industry on the possibilities provided by a wide variety of remotely sensed imagery
for all phases of mining projects. Data sets, Spatial Analyst processing, and Internet Map Server application
will be discussed in this paper. There has been no systematic use of data for both exploration and
monitoring. So the collected data from remote sensing together with ground measurements in a GIS, a
computer database can used to correlate spatial data with an underlying map of the area. Mining sector
in India is yet to explore better ways of presenting its research, knowledge and products to clients.
Advanced visualization products such as three dimensional movies, models and animations should be
frequently used as communication tool. These products are likely to be developed at CMRI and will be
delivered to the users as per their requirement as digital and internet-based products in formats not
requiring special skills or complex software for display.
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