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Environmental impact assessment of limestone quarry using multispectral satellite imagery

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Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is a prominent technology to assess the environmental changes in the open cast Limestone mining region. However, traditional EIA methods and Limestone deposit identification involves time consuming, cost effective and manpower requirements. We cope-up these problem and incorporated with different satellite image processing techniques and field studies to estimate the impact on environment. Landsat imageries have been used to calculate NDVI, NDWI, LULC, LST for the buffer zone within a 10 km radius of the mines from the period between 1997–2017. The noise pollution of the mining region is identified using a random sample method. To access water quality analysis in the area, the Water Quality Index (WQI) is generated using 12 water quality parameters. EIA is analyzed using Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP), Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) and future EIA is also predicted using empirical Bayesian Kriging approach.

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USGS earth explorer has supported to provide the multi spectral satellite imageries in open access to carry out this scientific research work.

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The research work does not have any funding activities in the various works such as data collection, processing, script manipulation and etc.

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  1. PSN College of Engineering and Technology, Tirunelveli (Autonomous), Tamil Nadu, India

    Vignesh Kumar

  2. Ghani Khan Chaudhury Institute of Engineering and Technology (GKCIET), Malda, West Bengal, 732141, India

    Kiran Yarrakula

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Kiran Yarrakula conceptualized the idea, and provided the necessary resources to carry out this research and supervised Vignesh Kumar throughout this study. Vignesh Kumar processed and analyzed the datasets. Both authors wrote the manuscript. Vignesh Kumar provided essential technical inputs that helped improve the manuscript.

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Kumar, V., Yarrakula, K. Environmental impact assessment of limestone quarry using multispectral satellite imagery. Earth Sci Inform 15, 1905–1923 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12145-022-00845-0

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