Remote sensing is being used more frequently to acquire information about a geographic area of interest prior to putting resources on the ground. Many problems faced by oil, gas, and mining professionals, including the selection and development of exploration areas, detection and mapping of illegal mining activities, or monitoring dams, pipelines and terrain movements can be efficiently addressed by extracting information from geospatial imagery.
Remote Sensing based applications reduce the need for field work, minimize environmental impacts, and ultimately save costs, to help achieve results faster during exploration, extraction, and remediation/reclamation stages.