Abstract: Accurate and efficient extraction of mining areas from remote sensing imagery is essential for resource investigation, environmental assessment, and ecological management. This task is ...
Abstract: Accurate and efficient identification of open-pit mining areas from remote sensing imagery is critical for global resource management and environmental monitoring. However, existing datasets ...
Across the gold belts stretching from Niger through Kaduna to Zamfara, artisanal mining—once a humble livelihood—has morphed into a perilous enterprise fuelling banditry and extremism. Forests and ...