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: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2023
• Subjects: gold mining; land degradation; Landsat and Sentinel-2 images; NDVI; landforms classification; Google Earth Engine; vegetation recovery; Magadan region; Kolyma; Magadan; Debin; kolyma river
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/rs15143564

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...