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Mine areas and feature data associated with using lidar and earth observation temporal analysis to explore and characterize uranium mining on the south Texas landscape
Open pit uranium mining in Atascosa, Karnes, and Live Oak Counties in the Texas gulf coast region was active during the second half of the 20th century. Understanding the history of these mining operations is important for proper management and restoration. Although some mines have extensive records documenting the locations and extents of mining pits and mine waste-rock piles, and provide descriptions of reclamation activities, abandoned mines with little to no such documentation are present on the landscape. A multiple lines of evidence approach using lidar derivatives and multispectral remote sensing temporal analysis (Stengel, 2022) was developed to (1) identify uranium mine waste-rock, wastewater, and land disturbance due to mining, to (2) differentiate between abandoned and reclaimed mine features, and to (3) help understand the life cycle of mining activities on the Texas landscape. This data release provides the 2013 and 2018 lidar data used to derive derivative terrain parameters described in the associated paper, as well as mine surface areas and features identified from our analysis.
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Victoria G Stengel |
Publication Date | 2024-05-03 |
Beginning Date of Data | 2022 |
Ending Date of Data | 2022 |
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DOI | https://doi.org/10.5066/P9L50M8T |
Citation | Stengel, V.G., McDowell, J.S., Cahan, S.M., Gallegos, T.J., and Hubbard, B.E., 2024, Mine areas and feature data associated with using lidar and earth observation temporal analysis to explore and characterize uranium mining on the south Texas landscape: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9L50M8T. |
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Metadata Date | 2024-05-03 |
Related Publication | There was no related primary publication associated with this data release. |
Citations of these data | No citations of these data are known at this time. |
Access | public |
License | http://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/ |
Harvest Date: 2024-07-18T13:40:47.875Z