Mine Geological Environment Monitoring and Risk Assessment in Arid and Semiarid Areas

• Published in: Complexity (New York, N.Y.) Vol. 2021; no. 1
• Main Authors: Jin, Jiaqi, Yan, Chicheng, Tang, Yixuan, Yin, Yilong
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Hoboken Hindawi 2021; Hindawi Limited; Hindawi-Wiley
• Subjects: Arid regions; Coal mines; Coal mining; Consumption; Disasters; Economic development; Ecosystems; Environmental economics; Environmental monitoring; Environmental restoration; Geodesy; Geographic information systems; Geology; Groundwater; Mineral reserves; Mineral resources; Mines; Monitoring; Monitoring systems; Mountain regions; Mountainous areas; Precipitation; Regions; Remote sensing; Resource development; Restoration strategies; Risk assessment; River ecology; Semi arid areas; Semiarid lands; Social change; Soil erosion; Subsidence; Sustainable development; Synthetic aperture radar; Vegetation; China; Yellow River
• ISSN: 1076-2787; 1099-0526
• DOI: 10.1155/2021/3896130

Along with the accelerated shift of coal mining to the ecologically fragile west, the contradiction between coal resource development and ecological protection in the western arid and semiarid coal mining areas is rapidly intensifying. Based on the above background, this thesis takes the coal mining area in the arid and semiarid regions as an example; applies the theories of ecology, coal mining subsidence, geodesy, and ecological restoration; uses remote sensing in synthetic aperture radar (SAR), geographic information system (GIS), and mathematical modelling to reveal the ecological evolution law of the mining area; measures the ecological damage of the mining area; and then proposes a reasonable ecological restoration strategy. The surface deformation monitoring study in the study area shows that on the whole, some areas in the study area have different degrees of surface subsidence disasters, and the maximum surface subsidence value exceeds 800 mm. From the distribution of surface subsidence in the study area, surface subsidence disasters mainly occur in the eastern and central mountainous areas rich in coal resources, as well as in the mining areas west of the Yellow River, and the subsidence basins are distributed in a series of irregular concentric ovals. In terms of the scale of surface subsidence in the study area, a total of 230.03 km2 of land in the study area showed surface subsidence hazards during the monitoring period, accounting for 13.78% of the total area of the study area, of which the area of severe subsidence was 44.98 km2 (2.69%). The area of more serious subsidence area is 101.33 km2 (6.07%), and the area affected by subsidence is 83.72 km2 (5.01%).