Mine Surveying and Mining Area Protection

Violetta Sokoła-Szewioła, PhD, DSc, Eng., prof. SUT, is Deputy Dean for Science and Cooperation at the Faculty of Mining, Safety Engineering and Industrial Automation, Silesian University of Technology. Her research focusses, among others, on issues related to underground mining activities, such as its impact on rock masses and mining terrain in seismically threatened areas. She has developed a new method to forecast seismic threats based on continuous observations of subsidence in mining areas. She also deals with monitoring of deformation and seismic activity in post-mining areas. She has been part of many research projects, including those financed by the European Union. She has authored over 130 publications and received various awards for her scientific research. She is a member of the Commission for the Protection of Mining Areas of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Since 2012, she has been assigned as the expert in the Technical Group on Coal operating at the European Commission.Patrycja Jarczyk is a researcher and academic teacher at the Faculty of Mining, Safety Engineering and Industrial Automation, Silesian University of Technology in Gliwice. She is the author of numerous scientific publications and conference presentations. Her research interests include underground construction, rock and rock mass mechanics, as well as mining-induced seismicity. She is also actively involved in the field of geodesy and cartography, being the author and co-author of many studies. She has participated in several international projects concerning seismicity in mining and post-mining areas.

• 1. Long-term ground subsidence caused by historical coal mining: case study of Eastern Canada 2. POMHAZ Project – spatial Decision Support System for support of the development of towns in post-mining areas in Poland 3. Multi-stage reconstruction and long-term maintenance of the road viaduct over DK81 in relation to mining exploitation and economic transformation in Poland 4. Analysis of ground movements in sinkhole prone post-mining area. Case study of the Babina mine in SW Poland 5. Comprehensive evaluation of mining-induced deformations and their consequences for a residential structure 6. Natural and anthropogenic rock mass deformations as threats to sustainable development 7. Aanalysis of building reinforcement against discontinuous deformation in mining terrain 8. Measurement of Water Surface Slope Using Tachymetric Observations 9. Assessment of mining impacts at the location of a building situated in the area of a former mine – a case study 10. Integrated diagnostics of a Heritage Palace: a multi-modal sensor fusion approach with machine learning for structural assessment 11. An integrated approach to assessing mine shaft deviation: surveying measurements versus theoretical calculations 12. Uncertainty of land subsidence model parameter values and its impact on the risk assessment of buildings 13. Multivariate analysis of the accuracy of the basic geodetic control network for guiding the axis of the tunnel built using a TBM machine on the LK104 railway line 14. A multi-criteria framework for assessing groundwater retention potential 15. Geographical Information Systems in terms of available data sources on mining areas 16. Accuracy analysis of the Digital Elevation Model made on the basis of a low-altitude photogrammetry 17. Delineation of the potentially flooded area in the rock mass 18. Correction of errors due to earth's curvature using selected photogrammetric software 19. Sustainable post-mining transition in Europe: integrating environmental engineering and urban regeneration 20. Remote sensing and low-altitude photogrammetry in monitoring the condition of mining waste disposal sites 21. Numerical assessment of building safety under mining-induced ground curvature: verification of ITB instruction 364/2007 22. Forecasting changes in seismicity induced by mining operations based on variations in mining depth 23. Towards the use of low-cost sensors in automated systems for monitoring ground surface vibrations 24. Applications and selection criteria of fly ash from hard coal fired power plants for post-mining activities in Upper Silesia Coal Basin 25. Factors affecting structure damage in a post-mining area. Case study 26. Factors influencing the accuracy of recording resources extracted from a deposit exploited beneath the water table 27. Assessment of drainage condition of structures using UAVs- case studies 28. Analysis of the impact of Earth's curvature on the transformation of boundary point coordinates using the Method of Independent Models