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Detecting risk buffer zone in open-cast mining areas: a case study of Sonepur–Bajari, West Bengal, India

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Mapping of land use/land cover (LU/LC) is an important activity of land management and monitoring, but mining activity has an effect on land, environment and local society. The analysis of land changes map is prepared using high resolution imagery and provide mining information. The rate of deforestation and forest fragmentation has also decreased due to mining activity. This has resulted in over exploitation of natural resources due to mining activities like deforestation, cultivation of marginal lands, mining and industrialization in meeting the increasing demand for food, fuel and fiber. Geo-spatial technology has led to the hosts of undesirable effects on the ecosystem. The risk buffer zone is manipulated based on environmental concern and field verification. Mining operations involve in mineral extraction from the earth’s crust, tends to make a notable impact on the environment, landscape and also biological communities of the earth in the mining area. LU/LC change detection and its impact over space and time (2007–2011). Risk buffer zone demarcation in colliery area and finally environmental impact assessment in the mining area.

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  1. Department of Remote Sensing and GIS, Vidyasagar University, Midnapore, West Bengal, India

    Sonjay Mondal, Kunal Kanti Maiti & Jatisankar Bandyopadhyay

  2. Department of Mining Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, West Bengal, India

    Debashish Chakravarty

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Mondal, S., Maiti, K.K., Chakravarty, D. et al. Detecting risk buffer zone in open-cast mining areas: a case study of Sonepur–Bajari, West Bengal, India. Spat. Inf. Res. 24, 649–658 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41324-016-0060-8

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