Umfassende Definition des Geo- und Umweltmonitoring aus den nachbergbaulichen Erfahrungen im Ruhrgebiet

The life cycle of the provision of geo-resources from the legal permission for exploration, through the process of extraction, to the decommissioning of sites is a long process in time and has a local, regional as well as supra-regional impact. The results of several projects show the necessity of integrating the methods of environmental and geomonitoring for spatiotemporal monitoring. Here, the fusion and upscaling of multiple geospatial data layers plays an important role. The project examples show the multisensor fusion of satellite remote sensing with copter flights and in-situ sensors. Only by considering the entire provisioning process of georesources, the necessary knowledge from the final phase can be used for future provisioning processes. In addition, the project results show the importance of considering the effects of changes in local climatological conditions (including precipitation). The projects illustrate that in addition to documenting the actual spatiotemporal changes, geospatial and environmental monitoring offers the possibility of project controls. This necessitates an expansion of the definition of geo-and environmental monitoring, but also the implementation of measures. In summary, however, it is also apparent that only through the fusion of several approaches the development of a geoscientific understanding of processes is achieved.