Acknowledgment to the Reviewers of Journal of Environmental & Earth Sciences in 2025
2026-02-06
Sustainable Development in Mining: The Role of Ventilation, Geodesy, and Remote Sensing
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Yapeng Li
Shanxi Coking Coal Fenxi Mining Group Shuangliu Coal Mine, Lvliang City 033300, China
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.30564/jees.v8i4.13229Abstract
The mining industry is a sustainable development that needs coordinated solutions, which may address the issues of worker safety, energy and emissions, enhance geotechnical risk management, and improve environmental transparency throughout the mine life cycle. This review brings together the importance of mine ventilation, geodesy, and remote sensing as the enabling technology for sustainable mining and how their integrated application can help change the current periodic compliance monitoring and decision-making processes to continuous, evidence-based management. The field of ventilation is discussed as a safety-critical system, which manages contaminant and heat, as well as an important component of underground mine power demand, with opportunities for efficiency improvements by ventilation-on-demand, high-efficiency fans, and data-driven control. The review of geodesy as the spatial foundation of mining activities, enabling the precision of excavation, volumetric responsibility, and monitoring of deformations to associated hazards (subsidence, slope instability, and tailings storage facilities mobility) with a specific focus on the traceability of measurements and uncertainty, is presented. Such remote sensing modalities as optical, thermal, LiDAR, and radar interferometry are evaluated in terms of characterizing the baseline, disturbance mapping, tracking the environmental effect, and wide-area deformation monitoring during operations and post-closure stewardship. The review also covers information fusion and online mine platforms integrating ventilation telemetry, geodetic net, and remote sensing time series, presenting the technical, organizational, and governance challenges associated with interoperability, validation, cybersecurity, as well as long-term data stewardship. Lastly, research gaps and future directions are also determined, such as standardized uncertainty reporting, a strong multi-sensor early warning system, and scalable architectures that can be used in mines with different degrees of digital maturity.
Keywords:
Sustainable Mining; Mine Ventilation; Geodesy; Remote Sensing; Deformation MonitoringReferences
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Li, Y. (2026). Sustainable Development in Mining: The Role of Ventilation, Geodesy, and Remote Sensing. Journal of Environmental & Earth Sciences, 8(4), 230–245. https://doi.org/10.30564/jees.v8i4.13229
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