On 25-27.09.2024 REECOL partners met in Chania, Greece to carry out a two-day meeting regarding the project progress. There were also partners attending online. TUC (School of Mineral Resources Engineering) was the host of the meeting. In addition to presentations
WP5 team met online to disccuss soil sampling plans and progress
REECOL team involved in WP 5: “Short and long term monitoring of ecosystem rehabilitation” continues work on collecting of soil samples. They met online to plan soil sampling campaign in Greece on the Ptolemais mining site at the end of
Visit in Konin mine – drone flights and collecting soil samples
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
REECOL ideas shared with the Faculty of Environment at the University of Jan Evangelista in Ústí nad Labem
Faculty of Environment at the University of Jan Evangelista in Ústí nad Labem is another university with which VUHU shared the REECOL project ideas.
REECOL ideas shared with Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague
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
KOMAG discusses suitability of visited heaps for the project needs
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.
Drone flights over mining heaps – in Bytom and Gliwice
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 –
Poltegor-Instytut is almost ready to start the compost development
One of the REECOL project objectives is development of a technology for soil regeneration using composts of high biological activity. A unique compost mixture of lignite, solid organic waste, and selected highly active microorganisms is to be used to restore