GIS METHODS FOR MONITORING TECHNOGENIC DISTURBANCE OF LAND IN THE SVERDLOVSK COAL DISTRICT (LUHANSK REGION)

Currently, the coal industry is one of the environmentally unfriendly industries of the world economy. Industrial activities of coal mining enterprises lead to pollution of the atmosphere and other living environments most strongly associated with the atmosphere, especially the soil, causing considerable damage to natural ecosystems, land use and other sphere of human activities. The possibility of using geoinformation technologies and remote sensing data in solving the problems of man-made violation of territories in areas of coal mining is presented in this report. A method for determining the location of coal mining waste heaps and updating their spatial characteristics using geoinformation systems based on satellite data from open sources is proposed. The research was carried out on the example of the Sverdlovsk district of the Luhansk region, where the tasks of accounting and control, utilization and reclamation of coal industry waste are of paramount importance. As a result of the study, all available waste heaps of the coal mining industry in the study area were identified and described. The problem of inappropriate land use occupied by waste from the coal industry is considered. Examples of mapping processes of formation of rock dumps based on historical high-resolution images are given