Ecological rehabilitation and long term monitoring of post mining areas
Two REECOL teams: from Instytut Techniki Górniczej KOMAG and from Poltegor-Instytut visited Konin Brown Coal Mine. KOMAG team carried out drone flights to collect data for calculation of NDVI. NDVI, i.e. normalized differential vegetation index – is used to determine the
Faculty of Environment at the University of Jan Evangelista in Ústí nad Labem is another university with which VUHU shared the REECOL project ideas.
On the international conference EGU 24, during a session “Mining and Post-mining innovative solutions for mining waste, and risk assessment for sustainable development”, the project partner School of Mineral Resources Engineering of Technical University of Crete gave a presentation covering
VUHU shares the REECOL ideas (rehabilitation methodologies and approaches etc.) with universities. A great occasion for this was an excursion of Czech and foreign students of the Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague at the Mostecká basin, guided by
After the droneflights over mining heaps – in Bytom and Gliwice, the REECOL team in KOMAG discussed the suitability of the recorded locations for the further project activities, i.e. landrehabilitation with use of technology and solutions developed in the project.
On the 2nd day of the REECOL project progress meeting, the project partners visited the lands of Premogovnik Velenje (PV) coal mine that undergo rehabilitation and the Coal Mining Museum of Slovenia in Velenje – both the surface and underground
KOMAG continues their work with drone flights to be ready for monitoring of rehabilitation of postmining lands with use of the technologies and solutions developed in the REECOL project. This time the flights were carried out over two locations –
On 11.04.2024 the project partners met in person in Velenje (Slovenia) and online during a meeting hosted by Premogovnik Velenje (https://www.rlv.si/) to discuss the completed, current and future task. Each partner gave a presentation about their work.
Poltegor-Instytut recently visited the Konin Brown Coal Mine, focusing on the Pątnów II B open-pit mine, where mining activities ceased in 2023. The purpose of this visit was to select areas for research on the compost mixture developed by the