The Application of Remote Sensing Technique to Verify Changes in Landscape due to Exploration Activities.

Abstract

Detecting and analysing landscape changes is of great values firstly for environmental monitoring and secondly for huge administrative purposes. This study, gives an insight on how remote sensing can be used to ascertain the extent of mineral exploration in the said locality. Many remote sensing methods are presently adopted for analysing multi-temporal changes but the approach used here is simple and could be interpreted by anyone. The first approach is visual interpretation of two remotely sensed images after all correction and enhancement supported by manual digitized polygons and the second is the variations in the spectral attributes of selected features after image sharpening. The last approach used is the unsupervised classification of the selected features whose result is in consonance with the initial analysis conducted. The result shows that remote sensing is not merely scientific manipulations but also it is the realities of our daily human activities.

Keywords: Structural Deformation, Kinematic, Kalman Filter