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German site Kirchheller Heide mining area
The Central European test site, named "Kirchheller Heide" is situated very close to the Ruhr Area, one of the biggest urban and industrial areas of Europe. It is an area of more than 100 kmē with forests, nature reserves, meandering flowing waters and agricultural fields. But there are recreation areas for the inhabitants of the Ruhr area and opencast mines, too. Finally Deutsche Steinkohle AG (DSK) is exploiting hard coal from more than 800 m under the surface. That is the reason for surface subsidence and changes in the environmental balance (e.g. groundwater level, flowing directions, vegetation). The monitoring of the environmental balance and its changes is essential for this area. DSK is obliged under acts to do an environmental impact study for this area. A lot of data exists over the "Kirchheller Heide" test site, from the environmental impact study. Especially HyMAP scanner data from a flight in August 1998 are existing. This data will be used in the project as the starting point of a multitemporal data series for change detection in land use, vegetation, soil and soil moisture. Hazard review and socio-economic impact reportSite contamination or impact final report, Appendix 1, Appendix 1a, Appendix 1b, Appendix 2, Appendix 3
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MINEO project Web Site realized by M. Garcin
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