TERRAVISION aims to establish and deploy an integrated platform to enhance the entire critical raw materials value chain towards implementing sustainable mining practices. TERRAVISION Earth Observation (EO) Mining Services Platform will be supported by four innovation pillars: (i) the Data Ecosystem for Large scale EO mining services will link and exploit various data from key sources (e.g. Copernicus satellite/ground radar/drone/in-situ sensing data) for monitoring the entire raw materials life cycle, (ii) the Analysis Ready Data (ARD) and Raw material spectral library, will provide a novel framework for processing raw multisensory EO data to become ARD and to be combined semantically with in-situ data to enable the development of an open and standardised raw material spectral library to support the full mining life cycle of critical raw materials and the mapping of primary and secondary critical raw materials, (iii) the EO services for the mining industry will develop and deploy services critical to supply chain (e.g. mapping of critical raw materials, mineral exploration, extraction rates in opencast mines and stockpile volumes) but also enable a dynamic hazard mapping service for proactive management of risks to promote operational efficiency of mining sites, and (iv) The Green and Resilience Accountability component will promote critical raw materials supply chain resilience and sustainability based on the quantification of environmental and socio-economic impact of mining activities for different mining phases (e.g. permission, operation, post-closure). The effectiveness of the TERRAVISION EO Mining Services Platform will be demonstrated at both EU (Greece, Spain) and beyond, coupled by validation campaigns at six mining sites that will pave the way for rapid uptake of the proposed systemic innovations. Targeted dissemination, exploitation and replication activities will enhance a clear pathway for TERRAVISION towards significant EU-wide impact.
TERRAVISION objectives include:
• Objective 1: Design, develop and demonstrate a Data Ecosystem for large scale EO mining services covering multiple sources of data and being compatible with the Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem.
• Objective 2: Design and develop a pipeline for Analysis Ready Data and a Raw Material spectral library acting as a basis of the development for multiple EO based mining services.
• Objective 3: To develop five EO based services adjusted to the needs of the mining industry covering all the phases of mining operations.
• Objective 4: To design and develop Green and Resilience Accountability component offering an overview in terms of sustainability and resilience of a whole mining site.
• Objective 5: To design, develop and integrate TERRAVISION EO Mining services Platform integrated with the provided services and supporting all the collected data sources
• Objective 6: Impact acceleration through standardization, clustering and targeted market exploitation activities
TERRAVISION mid-term impacts include: a) Develop and deploy innovative technologies, products and services based on satellite, airborne and ground-based remote sensing data combined with other in-situ data sources, supporting the whole raw materials value chain, b) Improve responsible supply of raw materials to Europe in line with the EU principles for sustainable raw materials. They set out requirements for sustainable raw materials and extraction and processing in Europe in terms of social, environmental and economic performance, c) Improve knowledge on raw materials resources in Europe and contribute to the implementation the EU action plan on Critical Raw Materials and d) Develop best practices and standards for innovate EO technologies, products and services for efficient permitting and environmental compliance processes. On top of these, TERRAVISION also contributes to wider societal, environmental, economic and scientific impacts.
