Analyses of environmental impacts of underground coal ...
Nov 12, 2011· The influences of coal mining in an arid environment on vegetation coverage, landuse change, desertification, soil and water loss were discussed. A series of available TM/ETM+ images with no cloud cover from July/August in different years (1990, 1995, 2000 and 2005) were used to analyze the change in various land environmental factors over time. The results show that while mining activity ...