Information Support for the Study of the Impact of Coal Mines on the Ecology of the Rostov Region Based on Satellite Imagery Data

Study results of disturbed lands ecological state in the course of underground coal mining in the coal-saturated areas of the Donetsk Coal Basin in the Rostov region are presented. Types and areas of technogenic landscape objects formed in the course of coal industry enterprises activity are revealed. The complex of works on acceleration of the ecological balance restoration on the surface of these objects is offered, consisting in application of loose rocks of Quaternary age with the thickness not less than one meter and planting of bushes and trees with sowing of herbaceous vegetation in the inter-rows of cereal and leguminous crops.

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