The mining area environment is a complex and dynamic system and is effected by mining activities. Therefore, knowing the dynamic change of the mining area environment is very important for mining and management of the mining area. But the traditional ground investigation always needs a lot of work and incomprehensive, it also takes a long period and lacks of real time. In recent years, the remote sensing monitoring method which has been applied widely to the mining area has been improved, but it still contains deficiencies, such as the singleness of the monitoring contents, the difficulties in the synthesized analysis of the new data with existing information. This paper integrates various remote sensing explanation methods and brings forward the concept about integrated environment monitoring in mining area based on image analysis, and discusses the strategy and technique of comprehensive information extracting, such as atmosphere pollution, earth covering and sinking, underground structure, etc. (C) 2011 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and/or peer-review under responsibility of APAAS
