An update on global mining land use.


Journal

Scientific data
ISSN: 2052-4463
Titre abrégé: Sci Data
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101640192

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
22 07 2022
Historique:
received: 09 03 2022
accepted: 08 07 2022
entrez: 22 7 2022
pubmed: 23 7 2022
medline: 27 7 2022
Statut: epublish

Résumé

The growing demand for minerals has pushed mining activities into new areas increasingly affecting biodiversity-rich natural biomes. Mapping the land use of the global mining sector is, therefore, a prerequisite for quantifying, understanding and mitigating adverse impacts caused by mineral extraction. This paper updates our previous work mapping mining sites worldwide. Using visual interpretation of Sentinel-2 images for 2019, we inspected more than 34,000 mining locations across the globe. The result is a global-scale dataset containing 44,929 polygon features covering 101,583 km

Identifiants

pubmed: 35869082
doi: 10.1038/s41597-022-01547-4
pii: 10.1038/s41597-022-01547-4
pmc: PMC9307859
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

433

Subventions

Organisme : EC | EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation H2020 | H2020 Priority Excellent Science | H2020 European Research Council (H2020 Excellent Science - European Research Council)
ID : 725525
Organisme : EC | EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation H2020 | H2020 Priority Excellent Science | H2020 European Research Council (H2020 Excellent Science - European Research Council)
ID : 725525
Organisme : EC | EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation H2020 | H2020 Priority Excellent Science | H2020 European Research Council (H2020 Excellent Science - European Research Council)
ID : 725525
Organisme : EC | EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation H2020 | H2020 Priority Excellent Science | H2020 European Research Council (H2020 Excellent Science - European Research Council)
ID : 725525
Organisme : EC | EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation H2020 | H2020 Priority Excellent Science | H2020 European Research Council (H2020 Excellent Science - European Research Council)
ID : 725525

Informations de copyright

© 2022. The Author(s).

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Auteurs

Victor Maus (V)

Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU), Institute for Ecological Economics, Vienna, 1020, Austria. victor.maus@wu.ac.at.
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Advancing Systems Analysis Program, Laxenburg, A-2361, Austria. victor.maus@wu.ac.at.

Stefan Giljum (S)

Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU), Institute for Ecological Economics, Vienna, 1020, Austria.

Dieison M da Silva (DM)

Federal University of Pampa (UNIPAMPA), Itaqui, 97650-000, Brazil.

Jakob Gutschlhofer (J)

Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU), Institute for Ecological Economics, Vienna, 1020, Austria.

Robson P da Rosa (RP)

Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM), Polytechnic College, Santa Maria, 97105-900, Brazil.

Sebastian Luckeneder (S)

Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU), Institute for Ecological Economics, Vienna, 1020, Austria.

Sidnei L B Gass (SLB)

Federal University of Pampa (UNIPAMPA), Itaqui, 97650-000, Brazil.

Mirko Lieber (M)

Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU), Institute for Ecological Economics, Vienna, 1020, Austria.

Ian McCallum (I)

International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Advancing Systems Analysis Program, Laxenburg, A-2361, Austria.

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