Remote Sensing Methods in Studying Stone Quarries

In Engineering and Environmental Geophysics different methods and techniques are applied. In this paper a remote sensing method has been tested in the segmentation of human made land covers such as open pit mines and stone quarries. The idea is to exploit to larger extent the possibilities offered by multispectral imagers having mind Thematic Mapper /TM/ onboard satellite series Landsat. The method has been used in the framework of our research is to find consistent statistical dependencies between multispectral data gathered in-situ and the corresponding ones in the images offered by airborne-based sensors. After correct identification of the pixels the subsequent segmentation forming the shape of the artificial feature is determined much more reliable. We have been combined ground spectrometry of stone quarry near Smolsko village, Landsat images of region of interest /RoI/, and in-situ condition surveys for assessment of the quarry area. For the purpose of the study geological observations, petrographical investigations, photo documentation and in-situ spectrometric measurements have been performed.