Simit Raval

Australian Centre for Sustainable Mining Practices
UNSW Australia

Dr. Simit Raval has over 20 years of combined experience in mining industry and academia. At present, his research and teaching is primarily focused on Mine Environmental Monitoring and Management.

Simit is unique among mining engineers/academics in Australia in his considerable mining engineering experience coupled with development of applied remote sensing techniques. His mining engineering background and the remote sensing skills provide a uniquely valuable strength to visualise, identify and monitor the environmental footprints of mining activities - a critical research focus that is attracting much interest from researchers internationally and that the mining industry is currently seeking to peruse.

Abstract

High resolution imaging for mine rehabilitation using UAV-Hyperspectral technology.

A quantitative record of the mined landscape is deemed to aid qualitative assimilation of the knowledge of the mined land and design of an efficient rehabilitation strategy. Cutting edge technologies such as Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) and hyperspectral sensors enable physiochemical insights into the biota. With the UAV hyperspectral system, it is now possible to spatially chart an ‘Eco-Space’ for species distribution, diversity, natural chlorophyll levels, photosynthetic activity, foliage cover and much more. In this study, we exhibit a framework to fingerprint a Mine Eco-Space for its natural functionality. A Fabry–Pérot interferometer (FPI) type lightweight hyperspectral sensors has been used to generate geo-spatialised classified raster products unique to a mine environment. The UAV flight campaign was performed at ecologically complex swamp environment within a mine lease located in the New South Wales. The presentation will include the resultant classified raster maps for the species composition as well as the derived biophysiochemical attributes of the species at a very high spatial resolution.

Conference Speakers
Thursday:

Friday:

Workshop Convenors
Wednesday:
Landform evolution modelling for mine rehabilitation EAMS-SIBERIA Workshop

Garry Willgoose

Friday:
Stream 1 - Best Practice Ecological Rehabilitation of Mined Lands Workshop

Stream 2 - New practices to advance mine rehab in the Hunter Valley Workshop

Workshop Précis

New practices to advance mine rehab in the Hunter Valley.

Australian Centre for Sustainable Mining Practices are conducting a workshop on practices to advance mine rehabilitation in the Hunter Valley.

This will include:

Corporate social responsibility and sustainable practices
Smart sensing for mine environments
Balancing site water accounts – focusing on aquifer interference and mine discharge

This will be an interactive workshop with worked examples and discussion.

Participants are requested to bring a notebook computer with Excel.

Presented and facilitated by A/Prof Michael Hitch, Dr Simit Raval, and Dr Wendy Timms.

www.mining.unsw.edu.au
www.acsmp.unsw.edu.au

Smart sensing for mine environments - Dr Simit Raval

Fundamentals of Remote sensing.
What satellite images are available? How to get it?
How to perform a basic image analysis and what do we get out of that?
Emerging sensors and platforms (UAVs/drones) – capabilities and applications for mine environments.

Balancing site water accounts – focusing on aquifer interference and mine discharge - Dr Wendy Timms

Overview of the Water Accounting Framework. Guide & spreadsheet are here: Minerals Council of Australia
Worked example of site water account. Participants to use their own PC with Excel
Summary of site water accounts across Hunter Valley, Timms et al 2016, Water International journal
How to account for aquifer interference and mine discharge. Tips and tricks discussion.

Social License and Sustainability: The cornerstone of corporate social responsibility - A/Prof Michael Hitch

Redefining Social license
Applying Principles of social license in mature mining camps
Actor Mapping and Analysis
Losing social license

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