introduction the sar cheshmeh copper deposit and indications of other deposits are located in the dehaj-sarduieh belt in the kerman region (khadem and nedimovic, 1973). this belt is one of the most important provinces of cu mineralization in iran, with approximately 300 cu deposits and prospects, includingtwenty of the porphyry copper type (ghorbani, 2013). this belt, 300 km in length and 30–45...

Persistent Scatterer interferometry (PSI) represents a powerful tool for the detection and monitoring of tiny surface deformations in vast areas, allowing a better understanding of its triggering mechanisms, planning of mitigation measures, as well as to find better solutions for social and environmental issues. However, there is no record hitherto of its use in active open pit mine in tropical...

Ground subsidence due to underground mining has posed a constant threat to the safety of surface infrastructure such as motorways, railways, power lines, and telecommunications cables. Traditional monitoring techniques like using levels, total stations and GPS can only measure on a point-by-point basis and hence are costly and time-consuming. Differential interferometric synthetic aperture rada...

In the last forty years, land mines have become one of the most serious threats to civilian populations in several parts of the world. To address this problem, humanitarian de-mining activities are being undertaken in many of the affected Countries. The de-mining process has, however, been fought with a number of difficulties since land mines and unexploded ordnance (UXO) are very difficult to ...

Underground mining activities lead to ground movements at the earth surface. An area-wide monitoring and the documentation of mining induced influences are required by the mining authorities. Work done in the past confirmed a significant potential of SAR interferometric methods to contribute information to such monitoring. Nevertheless, in spite of advanced SAR interferometric processing techni...

This paper describes the results from the recently launched SAR satellites for the purpose of subsidence monitoring over underground coal mine sites in the state of New South Wales, Australia, using differential interferometric synthetic aperture radar (DInSAR) technique. The quality of the mine subsidence monitoring results is mainly constrained by noise due to the spatial and temporal decorre...

This paper shortly describes the principles and ideas behind the project SMART, a European project intended to help Mine Action Centres (MAC) or Mine Action Authorities (MAA) in their task of area reduction by providing a GIS-based environment with specific tools to ease the interpretation work of the operator. Using multi-spectral optical data as well as SAR data obtained during a flight campa...

In this paper, we describe a combination of structural informatics approaches developed to mine data extracted from existing structure knowledge bases (Protein Data Bank and the GVK database) with a focus on kinase ATP-binding site data. In contrast to existing systems that retrieve and analyze protein structures, our techniques are centered on a database of ligand-bound geometries in relation ...