Satellite-Based Mapping of Gold-Mining-Related Land-Cover Changes in the Magadan Region, Northeast Russia

• Published in: Remote Sensing
• Main Authors: Andrey Shikhov, Polina Ilyushina, Olga Makarieva, Anastasiia Zemlianskova, Maria Mozgina
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2023
• Subjects: gold mining; land degradation; Landsat and Sentinel-2 images; NDVI; landforms classification; Google Earth Engine; Science; Q; Debin; Kolyma; Magadan; kolyma river
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/rs15143564; https://doaj.org/article/946ffd478a0046ebb6f1949c8e9ecc1a

Gold mining generates major environmental impacts like landscape degradation, accumulation of waste rock dumps, and water contamination by suspended solids. Russia ranks third in the world in gold production, but the impact of gold mining has not been previously estimated for its vast northeastern p...