Space technologies of earth remote sensing in applied problems and theoretical studies in mining

This paper reviews scientific publications which enable outlining main research areas for practitioners and experts to handle large-scale applied problems in the global mining industry using different-time resources of satellite surveying. The main challenges for the theoreticians and practitioners to deal with in this respect are the factors of ecology, technology and geodynamics of mineral mining. The research embraces all biosphere and mineral envelopes of the Earth on all continents. Almost all problems have two stages of solution, namely, the processing/interpretation of images and imagery data and the analysis of the initial information with justification of specific recommendations to enhance efficiency of business entities in the mining industry.