PhD research at UWH

Application of Remote Sensing technologies for the Environmental impact analysis 
in Kumtor gold mining company

           Abstract

          Nowadays the Environment Protection is very important. But actually, this action remains unfulfilled. This research will introduce the assessment and research of impact of the Kumtor gold mining on the environment through remote sensing technologies (high resolution GeoEye-1 and WorldView-3 satellite images with possibility stereoscopic, multispectral, and near-infrared archive data). After completion of this research will get the results for following: a growth monitoring waste - dumps, horizontal-vertical displacements, determining the area of waste - dumps, measuring the volume of waste - dumps and one of the main environmental problems associated with storage  huge amount of waste-dumps on the glacier and the disappearance of glaciers.

Work Program&Activities

Common uses of Elevation Models include:

Remote Sensing Data

These satellite images courtesy of the DigitalGlobe Foundation for this research work.

WorldView-2 and QuickBird satellite high-resolution panchromatic and multispectral archive image data with possibility stereoscopic.

Data from «QuickBird» satellite (1)

Data from «WorldView-2» satellite (2,3) 

2. Creation an ortho from existing RPC model

 3. Hyperspherical color space (HSC) Pan sharpening algorithm

4. Supervised classification

5. Discriminant Function Change Detection

Periodical variations of glaciers in mining area

 Below shown how to changed area of glaciers and Kumtor mining.

The blue lines are contours of glacier, red lines are territory of dumps in Kumtor gold mining

6. DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL (DEM), DTM extraction

Tie point process

Expectations