ABSTRACT
This chapter covers the remote sensing techniques utilized in mine subsidence monitoring. It provides the definition, basic mechanisms, and also causes and results of mine subsidence. Then important techniques that have been utilized through time in mine subsidence monitoring are briefly described. Among these mine subsidence monitoring alternatives, remote sensing techniques as passive (optical) and active (microwave) remote sensing are focused throughout the chapter. Different approaches, such as uses of satellite images, aerial photographs, InSAR, and DInSAR are explained and the methodologies are described briefly. Finally, a case study is presented to show the utilization of aerial photographs in mine subsidence monitoring for measuring and characterizing the surface movement changes in underground coal mining environment.
