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OSM | 2020
Monastery Run Wetland 1 near Latrobe, Pennsylvania, is a passive mine water treatment system constructed in 1997–1998 to treat multiple discharges from an abandoned underground mine. The OSMRE…
OSM | 2020
The OSMRE GIS Branch has been providing imagery support to monitor mine reclamation activities. This support was more critical in 2020 due to travel restrictions caused by the pandemic. The GIS…
OSM | 2020
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the majority of OSMRE employees have easily transitioned into a maximum telework schedule as much work can be done remotely. With technology in place to stay in contact…
OSM | 2018
The OSMRE Western Region worked with the State of Utah Division of Oil, Gas, and Mining to monitor reclamation efforts at Cottonwood-Wilberg Mine in Emery County, Utah, using remote sensing change…
OSM | 2018
Geographers and remote sensing specialists at OSMRE use unmanned aircraft systems (UAS; drones) to capture images and create mathematically correct 2D and 3D models of active and abandoned coal…
OSM | 2015
Underground coal fires can burn for years, and are a serious health and environmental hazard. There are four underground coal fires in northern New Mexico: two in close proximity to Gallup, one north…
OSM | 2011
Satellite imagery provides a relatively inexpensive tool to monitor and assess vegetation regrowth over time, and thus, was identified as an added benefit to the VIP method. Imagery can…
OSM | 2011
With supporting field work, satellite imagery is ideal for mapping vegetation community types for large areas. As in vegetation cover mapping, image classification techniques can be used to…
OSM | 2011
Satellite imagery has long been used to derive vegetation cover. With supporting field sampling, vegetation density (VIP 15) can be classified using the supervised image classification…
OSM | 2011
Vegetation establishment (VIP 14) can be determined using multispectral satellite imagery and image processing software to compute the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI). NDVI is a…
OSM | 2011
As part of the surface coal mining reclamation process, the operator is required to establish vegetative cover on all disturbed areas. Vegetation cover is required to be equal in extent and…