Reshetnev Siberian State University of Science and Technology, Krasnoyarsk, Russia:

Zenkov I. V., Professor, Doctor of Engineering Sciences, Honored Ecologist of the Russian Federation, zenkoviv@mail.ru
Yuronen Yu. P., Candidate of Engineering Sciences, Associate Professor

Institute of Computational Technologies, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia:
Nefedov B. N., Candidate of Engineering Sciences
Zayats V. V., Researcher Engineer

Trojanovo Open Pit Mine, Bulgaria is a known coal producer being among the top largest open pit coal mines in Europe. Started its history in the early 1960s, the open pit coal mine is now the only Bulgarian open pit mine that meets its own needs for power-generating coal. For the whole period of operation of the mine, the area of disturbed lands has made 15 thousand hectares. Mining has inflicted a large-scale damage to the natural landscape. In this connection, it has become of the theoretical and practical concern to carry out long-term monitoring of the disturbed land reclamation in the area of the open pit mine. In recent years, the issues of the mining ecology become in spotlight for researchers on every continent. At the same time, as the review of the scientific literature shows, the open pit mining ecology issues have never been studied using resources of the remote sensing of different duration. The article presents the results of the analysis of the disturbed land reclamation dynamics in the area of Trojanovo open pit mine using the freely accessible information resources of the remote sensing of the Earth.

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