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==Environmental Geo-information Technologies as a Tool of Pre-service
Mining Engineer’s Training for Sustainable Development of Mining Industry==
https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1844/10000303.pdf
Environmental Geo-information Technologies as a Tool
of Pre-service Mining Engineer’s Training for
Sustainable Development of Mining Industry
Volodymyr Morkun1, Serhiy Semerikov1, Svitlana Hryshchenko1
and Kateryna Slovak1
1 State Institution of Higher Education «Kryvyi Rih National University»
11, Vitali Matusevich st., Kryvyi Rih, 50027 Ukraine
morkun@mail.ua, semerikov@gmail.com, s-grischenko@ukr.net,
slovak_kat@mail.ru
Abstract. The article highlights peculiarities of geoinformation technologies’
application in course of pre-service engineers’ training for sustainable devel-
opment, their functionalities, geoinformation system’s role and position in envi-
ronmental protection acts. Concepts of geoinformation technologies, geoinfor-
mation system have been disclosed. The pedagogical experiment was done con-
cerning introduction of the developed method of using geoinformation technol-
ogies as means of forming environmental competence profile mining engineers
predicted an experemental studying on course «Environmental Geoinformat-
ics». The results of the expert assessment of rational using geoinformation
technologies there were given to create an ecological competence of future min-
ing engineering profile.
Keywords: education, mining engineer, sustainable development, geoinfor-
mation technologies.
Key Terms. InformationCommunicationTechnology, ICTTool, TeachingPro-
cess.
1 Introduction
1.1 The Problem Statement
Nowadays information and communication technologies (ICT) applying is one of the
principle education challenges, which provides the education process improvement,
its accessibility and effectiveness and preparing the younger generation for living in
the information society. Education must serve for the society needs. Processes reflect-
ing current trends of society transformation provide information technologies devel-
opment and implementing. At present the ICT usage in education can be a catalyst in
solving important social problems connected with increasing the educational re-
sources and services availability and quality, real and equal opportunities in getting
education for citizens despite their residence, social status and income [1]. Currently,
high technologies cover almost all areas of our life. Professionals having common
practical and theoretical skills of work with different information types are highly
wanted.
Nowadays ICT are very actual and necessary for optimal business management of
mining industry in the context of sustainable development and one of them are envi-
ronmental geoinformation technologies.
2 Concepts and Related Works
2.1 Specification of Stakeholders
Law of Ukraine on Mining is main regulatory document, defining legislative and or-
ganizational basis of Mining engineer profile-related activity in terms of mining activ-
ities arrangement, ensuring emergency protection of mining enterprises, institutions
and companies [2, article 5]. The Law stipulates preparation for mining activities and
mineral deposits extraction, mining organizations operation, emergency protection
and mining safety, peculiarities of environmental safety while mining as well as pecu-
liarities of labor conditions in mining industry, cease of mining companies’ activity,
etc. These provisions of the Law correspond to the functions of sustainable develop-
ment of a model of the using of resources aimed at satisfaction of human needs while
saving the environment so that these needs can be satisfied not only in modern, but
also by future generations [15]. Therefore, the state policy in the mining industry is
aimed at sustainable development of the mining industry, science and education.
2.2 The State of the Art
Nowadays mining engineer is the professional, being able to find new solutions of
technical problems’ resolving, applying scientific knowledge, mathematics, construc-
tion and invention using ICT. In recent years both in Ukraine and abroad the problems
of ICT implementation in the educational process have been actively explored by
V. Yu. Bykov, M. I. Zhaldak, I. V. Robert, Yu. V. Trius and others. Great contribu-
tion in geographic information system (GIS) investigating was made by S. S. Zamay,
I. V. Zhurkin, Ye. G. Kapralov, A. V. Koshkarev, I. V. Prolyetkin, O. S. Samardak,
S. V. Shaytura and others. The methods of using GIS (Geographic Information Sys-
tem) technologies have been reviewed in the profession oriented educational process
for high school students (N. Z. Khasanshyna), in teaching geography, geodesy, car-
tography and land management (G. D. Kulibekova, G. L. Yezhova), and in the educa-
tional process in general (L. E. Gutorova, I. V. Lytkina, A. M. Shylman,
V. A. Sultanov).
2.3 The Purpose of the Article
The main purpose is the analysis of the most appropriate ways of GIS application in
the process of pre-service mining engineers training in the context of Mining industry
sustainable development.
3 Presenting the Main Material
The geosystem concept [3, p. 100] describes geographically isolated ecosystems and
is a fundamental category of Geography and Geoecology characterizing a set of inter-
related geographical envelopes’ components, unified by substances’ and energy flows.
Application of the ICT in Geosystem researching resulted in Geoinformatics occur-
rence, being a brunch of science, reflecting and exploring the natural and socio-
economic geosystems, their interaction and development through PC-based simulation
based on information systems and technologies, database and knowledge base [4].
Geoinformatics’ tasks are studying of geoinformation’s general characteristics,
mechanisms and methods of its obtaining, recording, storing, processing and applica-
tion as well as geoinformation systems’ theory, methodology and technology devel-
opment for spatial-coordinated data collection, classification, storing, processing,
transforming and presenting. Geoinformation system functions also encompass geo-
graphic (spatial) data analysis and its visualization in the form of charts and schemes
it has appeared on the intersection of technology of data processing used in database
management systems and graphics visualization in computer-based designing and
machine graphics systems.
The importance of Geoinformatics scientific and technical issues in terms of the na-
tional economy is to provide information, control and support, decision-making in the
area of research, planning and designing in the geosciences and related to them social
and economic sciences, in education and culture development, ecological balance
maintaining, preventing emergencies and ensuring the state’s defensive potential.
Geoinformatics as science explores:
─ theoretical and experimental research in the field of geoinformatics’ scientific and
methodological basis;
─ technical means of geodata collecting, recording, storing, transmitting and pro-
cessing using computer technologies;
─ geoinformation systems of various purposes and type (reference, analytical, expert,
etc), spatial and thematic content;
─ databases and digital data in different fields, as well as database management sys-
tems;
─ knowledge base from different subjects;
─ mathematics methods, GIS mathematical, information, linguistic support as well as
GIS software;
─ geoinformation mapping and other types of geosimulations, system analysis of
diverse and multilevel geodata [5];
─ computer geoimages of new kinds and types, animation, multimedia, virtual and
other digital products;
─ geoinformation infrastructure, methods and technologies of geodata storing and
application based on distributed databases and knowledge base;
─ telecommunication system of spatial and time-bound geodata collecting, analyzing,
processing and distributing;
─ interaction of geoinformatics, cartography and aerospace exploration.
Geoinformatics is guided by means of information and communication technolo-
gies (a complex of «methods, tools and techniques used for collecting, organizing,
storing, processing, transmitting, presenting various information data» [6, 8]) applied
for data processing of special form such as spatial-coordinated data. Therefore, under
the GIS information and communication technologies (GIS ICT, GIS technology) we
mean the set of methods, tools and techniques used for spatial-coordinated messages
and data collecting, arrangement, storing, processing, transmitting and presenting.
We define geoinformation first of all as spatial data (spatial-coordinated data), be-
ing digital spatial information about spatial objects that include information about
their location and properties, spatial and non-spatial attributes [7, p.71]. Spatial attrib-
utes includes both positional and non-positional data (description of spatial location
and thematic content, topological-geometric and attribute data).
Necessity to consider data dynamics and changeability requires consideration of
not only spatial data character but also time-bound data aspects, expanding the con-
cept from spatial data to spatial and time-bound data. Introduction of time-bound data
dimension is one of the manifestations of spatial data multi-dimensional characteris-
tics, including four-dimensional GIS. Models or spatial data representations or its
structures are means of topological geometric abstract description. The most widely
spread relational model showing attributes of spatial data in databases is called geore-
lational data model. Spatial data quality is determined by its accuracy (correctness),
reliability, validity, integrity, consistency. Owing to various spatial data the basic
functionalities of GIS are as follows: posting, export, import, share, pre-processing,
processing, analyzing, output, visualization operations etc. According to Glossary of
key geoinformatics terms, GIS has the following definitions:
1. information system providing collection, storage, processing, access, display and
distribution of spatial-coordinated data (spatial information). GIS includes digital
data representing about spatial objects (vector, raster, quadraphonic, etc.);
2. software tool implementing GIS functionality. It is provided by software, hardware,
information, legal, personal and organizational support.
GIS can be classified as per various principles, such as:
─ territorial coverage: global (planetary), subcontinent, national (state), regional, sub-
regional, local;
─ matter focus: city (municipal), environmental (in particular, land etc.);
─ problem focus: scientific (GIS analysis and data evaluation), application (GIS for
resource inventory, monitoring, management and planning, decision-making sup-
port).
The GIS functionality is a set of functions related to geographic information sys-
tems and corresponding software:
─ data entry by importing existing sets of digital data or using source digitization;
─ data conversion: converting data from one format to another, transforming map
projections, changing coordinate systems, data storage, manipulation and manage-
ment in both internal and external databases, map-dimension activities, survey
measurement data processing, overlay operations, cartographic algebra operations;
─ spatial analysis: a complex of functions, providing analysis of location, relations or
other spatial object interrelations, including analysis of visibility / invisibility areas,
proximity analysis, network analysis, creation and processing of digital elevation
landscape models, analysis of buffer areas-bound facilities, etc.;
─ spatial simulation (geo-modeling): operations similar to mathematical and mapping
simulation, and cartographic research methods, visualization of input, derivative or
output data (cartographic visualization, planning and creation of cartographic im-
ages);
─ data display: graphical, tabular and textual documents, including their replication,
documentation and report generation;
─ decision-making support [8, p. 87-88].
3.1 Materials and Methods
The study is carried out in Kryvyi Rih National University according to the plan of
joint research laboratory of using cloud technologies in education process of Kryvyi
Rih National University and the Institute of Information Technologies within the re-
search project «Adaptive system of mining engineer individual teaching based on the
integrated structure of artificial intelligence» – a digital tutor» [9]. The author analyz-
es sources devoted to investigation of ecological competence formation problem and
application of geoinformation technology while future mining engineers training [10;
11]. This research also improves the system of competence of future mining engi-
neers, gives its theoretical explanation and represents geoinformation technology tools
used in education process [12-14].
3.2 The Ways of Implementation
Functionalities of ecology GIS:
─ digital map and environmental data posting, acquisition and processing;
─ build-up of thematic maps (based on data, obtained), reflecting current ecosystem’s
status;
─ examination of environmental change dynamics (dimensional- and time-bound),
development of charts, tables, diagrams, etc.;
─ simulation of environmental situation development and investigation of ecosys-
tem’s health correlation to weather conditions, characteristics of pollution sources,
background concentration values, etc.;
─ obtainment of environmental objects’ integrated assessment based on various data
[7, p. 7].
Role and position of GIS in environmental protection measures:
─ prevention of environmental degradation (GIS are used to create maps, showing
flora and fauna’s degradation in remote, satellite, field images, for land degradation
assessment, etc.);
─ pollution prevention (it is convenient in impact and expansion simulation from
point to spatial sources, placed in some particular location, in the air; outcomes of
simulating calculations can be put on the map and evaluate possible future emer-
gencies);
─ protected areas’ management (collection and management of data from protected
areas: reserves, national parks, performing multiuser tasks that ensure minimal en-
vironmental impact and environment preservation);
─ non-protected areas monitoring (GIS enable continuous data collection & update,
traceability of land use borders, development of environmental protection
measures, etc.);
─ rehabilitation of living environment (GIS is an effective tool for living environment
exploration as a whole and particular species of plants and animals in terms of both
dimensional and time-bound aspects, animals life monitoring, determination of
problems and ways of their solving);
─ scientific research and technical support (GIS enable determination of interrelations
between population’s health and variety of factors: environmental, demographical,
economical);
─ data digest structuring and publication (application of GIS simplifies publication of
various mapping products);
─ environmental-focused education (it is possible to get large number of various map
that are used by environmental-focused education) [7, p. 8-10].
4 Organization, Conduct and Results of Experimental Work
Pedagogical experiment of the introduction of the methodology of using geoinfor-
mation technologies as means of forming the ecological competence of pre-service
engineers of the mining profile which included for experimental training on a special
course «Environmental Geoinformatics». The multifunctional geoinformation systems
were used in the laboratory classes of the special courses in the control groups, the
multifunctional GIS, mining and environmental GIS and software of program-
methodical complex «Eco Krivbas» were used in the experimental groups. After the
completion of the experimental studying, there was found that in 49.33% of the stu-
dents in the control groups, environmental competence was formed at the average
level, and in 20% - on sufficient, while the students in the experimental groups were
dominated by sufficient (37.33%) and medium 36%) level of environmental compe-
tence formation.
5 Conclusions
Application of environmental geoinformation technologies is the fundamentals of
Mining company’s optimal management as well as of ambient environmental fore-
cast and control, leading to reasonable and environmentally balanced development of
natural resources in mined areas. Amount of work on impact of mining production
on the environment, considering specific character of natural and climate conditions
determined selection of geoinformation technologies which were presented as meth-
ods, tools and techniques, used for spatial-coordinated messages and data collection,
classification, storing, processing, transmitting and introduction. Application of
geoinformation technologies’ tools in mining profile engineer’s professional activity
ensures fulfillment of key environmental-focused requirements for mining via: ge-
osimulation of mining production areas’ location, remote monitoring of environmen-
tally friendly mining technologies’ application on the Earth surface, systematic anal-
ysis of multilevel and diverse geoinformation in course of open mining advanced
technologies implementation, aerospace probing of mineral wastes usage for recy-
cling purposes, geoinformation mapping, etc.
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