E E E E miners miners miners miners EO-MINERS Earth Observation for Monitoring and Observing Environmental and Societal Impacts of Mineral Resources Exploration and Exploitation Project no: 244242, call 2009, Theme 6, Topic ENV.2009.4.1.3.2
General context E E miners miners • Securing EC raw material supply • ETP – SMR and Strategic Research Agenda • GMES : integrating spaceborne and subsurface information component, EU Raw Material Initiative • GEO EO-MINERS Kick-off meeting, Brussels, 11-12 February, 2010
Other international initiatives E E miners miners • EU – The Raw Materials Initiative – Meeting our Critical Needs for Growth and Jobs in Europe” (COM(2008)699) – EU’s 2001 Sustainable Development Strategy (SDS) (renewed in 2006) – 2005 Thematic Strategy for the Sustainable Use of Natural Resources – 2008 EGS proposals for the implementation of a coherent EU non- energy raw materials policy • International – ICMM Sustainable Development Framework – SDMI, an international forum for the Sustainable Development indicators in the Mineral Industry – African Mining Vision 2050 – African Mining Partnership (AMP) EO-MINERS Kick-off meeting, Brussels, 11-12 February, 2010
Call ENV.2009.4.1.3.2: Earth observation in support of E E miners miners a sustainable exploitation of mineral resources • To provide the scientific basis to help monitoring/ observing, the impact on the environment and on the society of the exploration and exploitation of mineral resources involving key industrial partners in the domain of raw materials. • The project should incorporate as well partners/ stakeholders with knowledge about heavily exploited areas – in particular in the developing countries. • A demonstration component should be included in the project to be carried out through pilot phases of monitoring and observing of heavily exploited areas. • More specifically it is expected that the project would contribute to the EU Technology Platform on Sustainable Resources in the domain of environmental footprint reduction by using new observing, monitoring methods, and providing information about populations and societies affected by the exploration and exploitation of raw material. • The project should be implemented taking into account the relevant GEO tasks. EO-MINERS Kick-off meeting, Brussels, 11-12 February, 2010
EO-MINERS Scientific objectives E E miners miners Use and develop EO on Assess policy Contribute making demonstration sites to requirements at macro reliable and objective demonstrate the (public) and micro information about capabilities of (mining companies) affected ecosystems, integrated EO-based levels and define populations and methods and tools in: environmental, socio- societies, basis for a • monitoring, economic, societal sound “trialogue” • managing and sustainable between industrialists, • contributing development criteria governmental reducing the and indicators to be organisations and environmental and possibly dealt using stakeholders societal footprints EO of all phases of a mining project EO-MINERS Kick-off meeting, Brussels, 11-12 February, 2010
EO-MINERS Consortium E E miners miners Beneficiary name Country Beneficiary name Country Bureau de Recherches France Council for Geoscience South Africa Géologiques et Minières Coordination British Geological Survey UK Anglo Operations Limited, South Africa Anglo Technical Division Tel-Aviv University Israel Université de Versailles – St France Quentin Deutsches Zentrum für Luft - Germany Č eská Geologická Služba Czech und Raumfahrt e.V. Republic Wuppertal Institut für Klima, Germany Sokolovská Uhelná a.s. Czech Umwelt, Energie GmbH Republic Geoloski Zavod Slovenije Slovenia TBD TBD Mineral Industry Research UK Organisation EO-MINERS Kick-off meeting, Brussels, 11-12 February, 2010
EO-MINERS WP organisation E E miners miners WP1: Policy Analysis and Indicator Identification 1.1: Policy analysis Corporate policies Public policies Policies in civil society Identification of stakeholders 1.2: Information Requirements and Indicators Identification of information requirements Identification of operational indicators Status quo of monitoring environmental indicators by EO services 1.3: Resonance analysis of selected indicators and EO services WP3: EO applications and development over demonstration sites WP2: Protocols and standards for EO 3.1: site specific available data acquisition products 3.2: EO data acquisition 2.1: Mission Planning 3.3: Quality assessment 2.2: Data inspection 3.4: data processing, data fusion, algorithm 2.3: Atmospheric corrections and validation development 2.4: Thematic accuracy and validation 3.5: footprint assessment and risk analysis 2.5 : Documentation and dissemination 3.6: interaction with stakeholders and capacity building at site level WP4: EO integration, products and systems 4.1: EO products WP5: Communication, dissemination, 4.2: Models for forecast and simulation capacity building and exploitation 4.3: Environmental observation systems 5.1: Dissemination and capacity building 4.4: EO-MINERS and GEO 5.2: Communication and promotion Non technical leaflet series Videos – slide shows Website Technical brochures and posters 5.3: Initiating and establishing a sound “trialogue” 5.4:Exploitation and IPR EO-MINERS Kick-off meeting, Brussels, 11-12 February, 2010
E E EO-MINERS Sokolov demo site (CZ) miners miners EO-MINERS Kick-off meeting, Brussels, 11-12 February, 2010
E E EO-MINERS Witbank demo site (ZA) miners miners EO-MINERS Kick-off meeting, Brussels, 11-12 February, 2010
? Demo site? E E miners miners • ? EO-MINERS Kick-off meeting, Brussels, 11-12 February, 2010
E E miners miners Project T0 Affected Environment Environment ☺ Environmental and Societal societal impacts acceptability Pathways Transfer media EO and GIS in societal acceptability – a simplified Affected Populations conceptual model Populations
E E miners miners Affected Project Tn Environment Environment ☺ or ? Environmental and Societal societal impacts acceptability Pathways Transfer media EO and GIS in societal acceptability – a simplified Affected Populations conceptual model Populations
Methodology E E miners miners • assess policy requirements and define criteria and indicators to be possibly dealt using EO methods and tools – addressed through an analysis of policies related to the environmental and social footprint of mineral industries • develop high level EO-based data products applicable to the different stages of mining activities within the life cycle of mining operations – over the three demonstration sites • subsequent contribution to the development of generic EO data integration schemes – to characterise affected ecosystems, populations and societies – prepare indisputable documents for industrialists, governmental organisations and stakeholders. • take care of robust and reliable standards and protocols that guarantee the repeatability of the methods deployed. EO-MINERS Kick-off meeting, Brussels, 11-12 February, 2010
Expected outputs E E miners miners • developing EO-based tools for helping monitoring and observing the impact on the environment and on the society of the exploration and exploitation of mineral resources. • Addressing GEO (Group on Earth Observation) and GEOSS (Global Earth Observation System of Systems) process and tasks – using technological outputs to define core elements of an environmental observing system – examining how this system fits in GEO and contributes to building GEOSS. • Means for a sound “trialogue” i.e. “ An interchange and discussion of ideas among three groups having different origins, philosophies, principles, etc .”) – between the three main groups involved, the industry, governmental organisations and other stakeholders (e.g. NGOs) are expected. EO-MINERS Kick-off meeting, Brussels, 11-12 February, 2010
EO-MINERS and GEO E E miners miners • Objectives – Filling a strategic gap in GEO, an initiative which does not address minerals to any meaningful extent at present, based on: • Mining and Environmental EO Systems developed in EO-MINERS • Identification of synergies and gaps between EO-MINERS and GEO • Strategy – Review the existing GEO Tasks covering the 9 societal benefit and 5 transverse areas defined by GEO work plan 2007-2009. – Maintain a dialogue with GEO, visiting GEO members and participating organisations in ACP countries and Europe as necessary – Participate in GEOSS conferences and workshops, making presentations on the contribution of mining and environmental observations to specific societal benefit and transverse areas – Run a minerals workshop with GEO members and/or the GEO Secretariat • Deliverables – “EO-MINERS to GEOSS Mapping Database and Report” including : • a proposal for the update of the GEO Work Plan • proposals for follow-on projects to deliver against common EO-MINERS and GEO targets • proceedings of EO-MINERS presentations at GEO Workshops and Conferences. EO-MINERS Kick-off meeting, Brussels, 11-12 February, 2010
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