Monitoring of Vegetation Growing Environment in the Mining Area of the Mount Lyell Using Hymap Images

Mining activities have caused serious heavy metal pollution in soil and water resources. The weathering mullock and mining tailings transport the heavy metal in polluted areas into ambient soil, rivers, and groundwater, which destroys the surrounding ecosystem. The menace of heavy metal elements in minerals can lead to botanical variety and impact vegetal growth. With the development of remote sensing, the pollution to the ecosystem and the damage to vegetation can be effectively diagnosed and monitored by remote sensing technology. The hyperspectral data provides an effective tool for monitoring vegetal species [1], vegetation growth [2], and the biochemical information [3-4]. A growing number of studies in recent years have focused on how to use remote sensing for dynamic monitoring and effective evaluation of vegetation growth and its growing environment in mining areas, which provide a scientific basis for making policies of environmental treatment in mining areas.