{"id":2664,"date":"2022-08-05T16:23:47","date_gmt":"2022-08-05T14:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/europabon.org\/?p=2664"},"modified":"2022-08-05T16:25:41","modified_gmt":"2022-08-05T14:25:41","slug":"new-europabon-supported-paper-investigates-the-updates-in-the-global-mining-land-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/europabon.org\/?p=2664","title":{"rendered":"New EuropaBON-supported paper investigates the updates in the global mining land use"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A recently published paper, studying the current updates in global mining land use is now available in the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/sdata\/\" target=\"_blank\">Scientific Data<\/a> Journal. The study has been conducted by a team of leading international experts, amongst whom is EuropaBON\u2019s member Ian McCallum (<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/iiasa.ac.at\/\" target=\"_blank\">International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis,IIASA<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"489\" src=\"https:\/\/europabon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Screenshot-2022-08-05-171808-1024x489.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2665\" srcset=\"https:\/\/europabon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Screenshot-2022-08-05-171808-1024x489.png 1024w, https:\/\/europabon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Screenshot-2022-08-05-171808-300x143.png 300w, https:\/\/europabon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Screenshot-2022-08-05-171808-768x367.png 768w, https:\/\/europabon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Screenshot-2022-08-05-171808-1600x764.png 1600w, https:\/\/europabon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Screenshot-2022-08-05-171808-1536x733.png 1536w, https:\/\/europabon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Screenshot-2022-08-05-171808.png 1667w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><em>Global overview of additional mining area mapped in Version 2 compared to Version 1, aggregated to 5050\u2009km&nbsp;grid cells and projected to Interrupted Goode Homolosine.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Against this background, the paper updates previous data from mapping mining sites worldwide. Utilising 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\u2009km2 of large-scale as well as artisanal and small-scale mining.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the full paper <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41597-022-01547-4\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recently published paper, studying the current updates in global mining land use is now available in the Scientific Data Journal. 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