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DESCRIPTION:As humanity is entering the 4th Industrial Revolution\, marked 
 by the digital transition\, the global demand for strategic minerals is qu
 ickly rising. Critical Raw Materials (CRM) are among those commodities whi
 ch are facing an increasing supply risk due to availability and political 
 reasons. In order to increase EU's self-sufficiency in CRM\, there is a gr
 owing interest for the identification of mineral resources in Europe and f
 or the stipulation of acceptable trade agreements with diverse external su
 ppliers. With the Raw Materials Act\, the European Union commits to a sust
 ainable management of raw materials. This includes promoting sustainable m
 ining\, which undertakes to the minimization of social\, economic and envi
 ronmental impacts caused by resource extraction. It means also reducing mi
 ning rates\, in order to guarantee reserves for future generations. Despit
 e these stringent rules applied to the extractive industry\, the conversio
 n to more sustainable practices on a global scale is still slow\, and not 
 all countries have translated the principles of sustainable mining to laws
  or are able to successfully enforce them. In this context\, thanks to the
  increasing availability of aerial and satellite data\, mineral and mine f
 acility mapping with optical images is quickly gaining ground. This techni
 que is a cost-effective\, non-invasive solution for supporting early-stage
  exploration and monitoring of extractive facilities. Here we show some ex
 amples of how Earth Observations can support the mining industry at differ
 ent phases of the supply chain. These applications use freely available mu
 lti-spectral satellite data\, such as Landsat and Sentinel-2 images\, as w
 ell as commercial high-resolution data\, such as Planet. The high temporal
  resolution\, as is the case of Planet and Sentinel-2 products\, and the l
 ong lifespan of Landsat data\, allow to effectively analyze the evolution 
 of mine sites and their surroundings. The outcomes represent preliminary r
 esults focused on mineral characterization through band indexes and spectr
 al signature analyses\, and impact assessments on the nearby land associat
 ed with the extraction sites. The study aims at being a contribution to un
 derstanding the current relative standing of the mining sector in the achi
 evement of the sustainable mining targets. It shows\, on the one hand\, th
 at remote sensing is an innovative tool for identifying and characterizing
  new\, inaccessible resource deposits\; on the other\, that it is a suffic
 iently mature technology for measuring the social and environmental footpr
 int of the CRM market on a global scale. As illustrated in the Raw Materia
 ls Act\, Earth Observations are key to supporting different phases of mine
 rals’ value chain. These results and the related literature may be consi
 dered as a benchmark for future research in this domain.\nThis research is
  funded by the National Plan for Recovery and Resilience  (PNRR) project G
 eosciencesIR.
DTSTAMP:20260516T141049Z
LOCATION:Sala Videoconferenza @ PoliBa
SUMMARY:Earth Observations applied to Critical Raw Materials supply chain -
  Susanna Grita\, Piero Boccardo\, Vittoria Olgiati\, Alberta Pavone
URL:https://talks.staging.osgeo.org/foss4g-it-2023/talk/ADRQMK/
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