Characterization of Black Sand Mining Activities and Their Environmental

Impacts in the Philippines Using Remote Sensing

by Estelle Chaussard and Sara Kerosky
Published: 28 January 2016
The findings emphasize the danger that black sand mining poses to coastal
municipalities. Because most mining sites are at low elevations, fast subsidence exposes them
to flooding and other hazards.Seasonal typhoons are exacerbated, and the effect of sea level
rise caused by climate change is amplified. We demonstrate this.Due to significant subsidence,
some coastal areas will be at sea level height in a few decades.
Since Subsidence is anticipated to continue to damage the areas even after mining
activities have ceased. Characterization of the temporal evolution of land subsidence due to
disruption of the sediment budget. The fact that mining is not always linked to subsidence does
not rule out the possibility of a direct between ming and subsidence. Though, they able to
pinpoint communities at high danger of flooding from typhoons and rising sea levels. Increased
legal and illicit mining activity in certain areas could exacerbate the problem.
Data from remote sensing is essential for monitoring, controlling, and responding to
black sand mining operations and their cultural and environmental consequences. They
demonstrate how optical pictures may be utilized to identify objects.Respond to the emergence
of criminal activity at mining sites. On the island of Luzon, we discovered a total of twenty black
sand mining locations, seventeen of which were discovered through contacts, news, and
permits,three found in the InSAR mean velocity map and confirmed using optical imaging using
optical images