Images & Animations Mining and rehabilitation

DEA Land Cover depicts a bauxite mine in Western Australia, showing how the opencut process scars the earth as the ore is reaped from a shallow depth across the landscape, followed by the rehabilitation that helps return the landscape to its natural state.

Creative Commons - Attribution International 4.0, © Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia) 2021. Input data from Landsat 5, 7 and 8, courtesy of the US Geological Survey.

doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/data4040143