Assessment of Urban Wastelands using GIS and IoT as Tools for Spatial Data Analysis

Large urban development around cities often results in vacant, abandoned or unproductive land parcels, sometimes called ‘wastelands’. There are various types of urban vacant land identified as post-industrial, derelict, land without any vegetation and left unattended, natural, and transportation-related vacant lands. The traditional way of collecting the data to study and manage such massive wastelands is hugely time consuming. Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and Remote sensing applications can extract periodic spatial changes and make it easier to collect and generate base maps, assess the number of wastelands in a given city, and remotely assess the extent of the area of wastelands/ vacant/ degraded lands. GIS also helps as a valuable tool to identify the neighboring land uses, lakes, green cover, and road networks, which could be considered as base work for any study to progress further with accurate information. Newer technologies like big data and cloud-assisted technology are employed in IoT applications for these wastelands to formulate an intelligent environment. Factors such as workforce, time, labor, transportation, money, and all other logistics can thus be strategized better with the combination of GIS and IoT applications; these are integral to wasteland monitoring and management practices for urban regions. This review paper aims to demonstrate how GIS, remote sensing, and IoT facilitate us to carry out monitoring, analyze, extrapolate, process, store, and integrate the spatial data for urban wastelands; and becomes a basis for planning and decision-making for on-site and management plans.


Introduction
Kim G. and his colleagues in the year 2018, defined vacant and abandoned land parcels as wastelands. 1 Land degradation which could be temporary or permanent has been caused due to various physical, chemical, biological, and social factors.The data is updated by the Department of National Remote Sensing Agency, Hyderabad (NRSA) once in ten years to plan essential management programs for reviving the degraded land by the Government of India to mitigate and make them productive land use category.ISRO is collecting data at regular intervals on land degradation, and wasteland generation through satellite imagery with a time range of 2005-2015. 2National Wasteland Development Board (NWDB) along with National Remote Sensing Agency (NRSA) categorized 13 typologies of wastelands in India.

Methodology
The paper aims to infer and discuss technologies used in mining wasteland at a global level.The purpose of this study is to review the existing literature so as to understand how contemporary technologies enable us to understand mining problems and resolve in finding their solutions more objectively.It aims to show how GIS, remote sensing, and IoT are being used in the wastelands and what could be the future scope in this field.This paper has been developed in the following stages, stage one is through a literature study to know the basic terminology and category of wastelands from various departments like NWDB, NRSA, and Department of Land Resources (DoLR).Stage two is to review the technologies and their application from the micro to macro level in the technological context of IoT, stage three is to understand through literature study the present active IoT technologies applied in the mining sector.The paper concludes with an understanding of the scope and future contemporary applications of the existing technologies in mining wastelands.

Review of GIS, Spatial Data, and IoT Applications in Wastelands
This review paper studies various technologies like Geographical Information Systems (GIS), GIS applications in the field of mining, Remote Sensing (RS) and spatial data analysis, satellite imagery, Internet of Things (IoT), IoT application in mining, and mine sustainability.The study is to understand the need for technologies in the mining sector and their applications in resolving the issues in the field.

Geographical Information System (GIS)
Prof. Jaiswal R. et al, in 2005 studied the comparison of visual assessment and GIS maps obtained, giving a visual estimation of 7 types of land uses with simplified landscape assessment within a 500m radius in a 1:5000 scale.To facilitate the assessment 3 concentric buffers were used in 126m, 333m, and 500 m radii respectively.Each land use pattern was estimated with a special pattern and areas like hedges and roads were also provided special patterns.These were 3 different land use patterns in France with Normandy having grasslands dominate in their landscape.In the agricultural landscape, vineyards dominated the Nouvelle-Aquitaine and hilly agricultural landscape with dominated crops of fragmented oak forest.This data was collected and complete digitizing was performed in ArcGIS software.To compare the question of accuracy a layman was appointed to compare the GIS study with the photographic field study and perform a visual assessment (Simplified assessment).
The second experiment was to have 5 photographs given to 20 students with an agronomy background.Only 5 land use types -crops, forests, grassland, hedges, and urban areas were selected.With the help of visual aids, the students had to calculate the percentage of the total buffer area.
During the second round of data, the concentric buffers were considered with similar visual aids.The paper concludes the appropriateness of using the simplified visual assessment and GIS mapping for qualitative assessment by using the Concordance Correlation Coefficients (CCC), visual aids, and GIS mapping.The patch matrix model for agricultural landscapes is suitable and clearly identified through GIS.Visual aids could not give precision in the assessment.Land uses like the forest; grasslands were precisely accurate.The overall accuracy was high for the landscape composition where the qualitative assessment is required. 3sertification is currently a major environmental concern, 70% of the total land area is dryland.Desertification has conditions like soil degradation, erosion issues, and reduction in biological, chemical, and physical properties, resulting in desertification and wastelands.The author Liu Y. et al., in 2014 observed the spatial inventory, assessment, and monitoring of degraded lands.Remote sensing has proved to be accurate, repetitive coverage, realtime data acquisition, cost-effective, and long-term monitoring facility and has proven to be faster than the ground methods to assess degraded land. 4 the paper Lui and colleagues conclude that data collected in 1991, 2000, 2016 years are mapped VIKRAM & BHARDWAJ, Curr.World Environ., Vol.18(2) 893-903 (2023)   based on land degradation and observed that 10.5 % increase in degradation.Vegetal growth and water erosion was the cause of land degradation in the year 1991 and there was an intense spike in mining and quarry during the 2000 which again led to the cause of land degradation, local farmers are giving land on lease for limestone mining, which is almost 600% increase in land degradation.In 2016 limestone mining in agricultural land has increased the degradation 10 times that of 2000. 5 understand the terrain characteristics at the regional level with the help of remote sensing data as an efficient tool with multi-temporal image coverage.The thematic maps integrated by GIS with suitable groundwater prospects and demarcating the forest fire risk zones.It could also derive other databases like development plans.Remote sensing would study the utility of other assessment of natural resource potential at regional and local level.The idea is to connect everything to the internet and to humans.IoT is considered as a smart way to connect with humans, compute data can also take decisions and give the appropriate solution by coordinating with humans worldwide.There are several applications ranging the usage from micro-scale residence to a macro-scale smart city concept.The large-scale smart city concept envelops around the smartphone, smart building, transport, healthcare and other smart managements importantly the devices, network privacy and security control management as shown in Figure 2. A few IoT applications have been discussed below.

Unique Identification of Devices
IoT Infrastructure: all the devices, payment modes and other independent enquires have QR codes, Bluetooth connectivity, and ID solutions.They are all name-centric or big data-centric, the IoT Data Mining Unique ID's make you better understand data for acquiring, storing, and managing trillions of devices and related features.VIKRAM & BHARDWAJ, Curr.World Environ., Vol.18(2) 893-903 (2023)

Ultra Large-Scale Network of Things IoT infrastructure
For ultra large-scale areas a blanket of IoT infrastructure has to be embedded where it serves the needs intelligently.In such large-scale projects, the time duration taken is 25-40 years of mining lease, during this time period there would be environmental changes, resource constrained devices to monitor those changes constantly through the devices.

IoT Data Mining
The issues here are data storage, privacy, security, processing limitation, real-time data, etc.The techniques of pre-processing of data could be feature selection and data filtration and pattern reduction can all be achieved in the data mining process.

Device and Network-Level Heterogeneity Ubiquitous Integration, Interaction, and Interoperability
Cluster formation, accommodating heterogeneity in architectural clusters and synthesizing the new challenges by providing services, technologies, and applications.This will be able to extract the data from a large-scale data set but certainly has to deal with dynamic, uncertain, and incomplete data.Research is needed to dynamically connect the devices in a large network system, and incorporate centralized middleware and innovative services.

Service-Oriented Intelligence
The IoT environment could be remote or mobileoperated and powered which may not work consistently 24/7.The system may require Ad-hoc applications as the infrastructure may demand various services while making the architectural grid system.

Privacy, Security, and Trust Management
The aspects like privacy, security, and trust management must be an integral part of all the systems.The emergency system with health care, protection control, and entertainment with all the personal data is all required to have security and privacy locked.In the case of hacking, it could be a threat to many lives.Nowadays the phone is maintaining many details and also shares a lot of private details/ information, these are getting connected to a lot of bigger systems and uninterrupted smart environment services.Ad-hoc systems are a major threat to privacy and security application.One needs to address the privacy issue at every level with adequate management solutions. 8 In recent time climate change and environmental monitoring and management have been a global concern.The novel idea of cloud computing, Integrated Information System (IIS) which combines the Internet of Things, Geoinformatics [remote sensing (RS), geographical information system (GIS), and Global Positioning System (GPS)], and e-Science for environmental monitoring and management along with a case study. 9

Internet of Things Application in Mining
The article speaks on the advanced technologies used for the process of ongoing mining sites.
The applications used here are IoT sensors, cameras, Under Ground Long Term Evolution (LTE) networks, and also a powerful private cloud for the blasting and tunneling in real time with IoT in mining.IoT applied to detect the dangerous gas or potential tunnel collapse.IoT reaches new depths by having Wi-Fi mesh all over the mining area and would be able to get connected to every corner of the site.Sweden and Norway may be the hub of IoT mining, as Swedish mining company has a stretch of kilometers of below-the-ground mining and this is completely headed towards the automated systems. 10T can be applied in mining for unmanned vehicles 24/7 in the mining land.It has been successfully used in Australia.These are GPS-powered vehicles that can function effectively with minimum fuel cost.Problems tackled through IoT are unmanned vehicles which are GPS-powered vehicles, predictive maintenance i.e., when the equipment will need the required maintenance and inventory management of spare parts with IoT management the stock of the spare parts could be brought to the right time without wasting much time.Automatic settlement of the transactions and producing the information reports would be done by the digital control system to save time.

Cloud-Based Logistics
Technologies with load sharing can enable the mining process easier.Companies can manage the sales contracts, real-time rates, and costs of the product and manage the product flows that control the risks and optimize cost. 11of. Bhuiya S. in 2019 studied that mining is technically the most dangerous occupation in the world.The underground mining risks life, and social guarantees in case of injury and are left without assistance.Negative impacts of displacement and loss of livelihood are major concerns of this industry.
To overcome these disasters of underground mining the use of technology to intimate with the intelligent sensing and warning system.The radio frequency (RF) technology is used for communication inside the mines. 12al mining or any other type of mining there are a lot of safety issues.The author has tried to resolve the critical safety issues of the miners.The air pollution in the underground tends to increase with a lot of gaseous particulate matter and miners in underground areas tend to fall sick and lose consciousness.To overcome this problem a wireless transmitter Zigbee technology and GSM are used to give a warning for the miners to safeguard themselves and evacuate in case of emergencies.

Mine & Sustainability
To avoid accidents and destruction of equipment the system of mine monitoring helps in the closure of the mines.IoT helps to facilitate the reduction in environmental effects of runoff, run-on, percolation, nitrogen, and leaching of chemicals into the surface water and groundwater.IoT has not advanced in obtaining data for quantifying mineral availability.

The Internet of Things in Mine Monitoring (IMM)
is an upcoming technique in mining activity operations.This helps and facilitates fast decisionmaking and proper mining action.IoT would be the answer to the challenges of collecting manual data which would otherwise require a significant amount of travel in communication between the field and decision-making.The author has explained the novel methods employed in mining operations can be adapted.

Real-Time Mining Sensory Data
Installing with multiple sensors the challenges of real-time information gathering are decreased.

Autonomous Mine Monitoring
As the scale of the mining is very large the technology here is able to establish the information on the real-time mine monitoring.

Field-Based Mining Prescription
Each mining site has its own characteristics like soil, climate, field properties, etc. Autonomous mine monitoring data integration has to be developed for the monitoring and fast decision-making process.

Sustainable Mine System Operation
Early warning of disaster in the monitoring system and practical integration of data collection tools to allow effective and fast decisions do not exist.
"The IoT of Sustainable mining has classified mining into 4 types depending on the type of ore deposits: 1. Surface mining for shallow deposits.2. Underground mining to access deeper deposits 3.In situ mining to dissolve the minerals 4. Placer mining for shifting the minerals" 9 The challenge in IoT-based sustainable mining is to enable the technologies for smooth functioning and futuristic mining operation.
The senses like drones and aircraft work positively for seismic areas, then there is electromagnetic (EM) and ground penetrating radar (GPR) to monitor the seismic zones.
In the field of mineralogy, geology, and hydrology mine monitoring needs to be worked much better with the help of IoT and simulation methods.
There is a need to recover the total resource without impacting the environment.To reduce the environmental impact, the economical approach of bio-mining and the usage of bio-agents to extract the minerals also reduce the waste.The cutting and fragmentation of ores and waste to its accurate precision are envisioned with technology.
Mine monitoring is important to monitor the pollutant's TDS, conductivity, pH, salinity, and also other parameters to ensure the safety of nearby water bodies.Drones in aerial geophysics are used for seismic areas of mining to represent the hyperspectral data.
The life cycle of a mine undergoes the following important steps.1. Exploration (identification of the ore), 2. Drilling and communication (breaking and separating the ore and waste), 3. Gathering of resources, production unit, processing unit (crushing and grinding) and lastly 4. Closure and Reclamation of land.

Mine Monitoring for Health and Safety
Obstacles like fall, berm and equipment can be detected through hazards using IoT.Lack of ventilation, air quality, cooling and control in underground mining areas is a risk factor for the miners which are managed by the IoT monitoring system.

Environmental Monitoring
New technologies are identified for evapotranspiration, that can delay the process of infiltration and reduce fine particle emission of dust in the case of acid-mine drainage and acid-generating materials.

Earth Crust Monitoring
Research on an integrated mine-monitoring system that can help to detect seismic activity and other underground conditions.It is possible to measure ground motion, displacement, and other disturbances that could indicate potential issues.This kind of monitoring could be a key part of keeping mines safe and productive for everyone involved.

Transportation Management
Vehicle loading, ground monitoring, illegal vehicle activity is taken care of by the wireless communication system.Prediction for machinery faults are detected by the sustainable mining IoT systems.

Gas Detection
In mine monitoring, there are various levels to keep track of methane levels and catalytic ball sensors being utilized in IoT.These tools are incredibly useful in ensuring the safety and security of miners and the environment.

Goaf Fill Monitoring
A cave that is formed for mining in the underground is a goaf.It is important to monitor the goaf strata and see to it that it does not subside and increase the strength of the structure.The goaf tends to accumulate the gas and also may carry the risk of explosion.
Mine fire monitoring: Mining areas are more prone to the fire hazards, sustainability mining in IoT enables us to detect fire, control and warn before the incidence has occurred by sensing the temperature and gas.

Conveyor Belt monitoring
Smart conveyor belt, control, sensing damage in the belt and also communication sensing systems are enabled.

Water Monitoring
Geophysical sensing methods are employed; this will recognize cracks and geological faults in the structure where there is high water pressure and temperature.

Miner's Tracking
Routers are used for wireless and wire approaches as general communication equipment.This help in locating and detecting the miners who are trapped in the accidents.3D maps are used for locating the mine worker's location.
There are different paradigm shift technologies for sustainable mining in IoT.1.Autonomous mining is a robot-based mining system used for underground mining.itcan be also used in harsh, inaccessible and remote conditions and places.2. Waste utilization can be used as building material and construction.Bio mining, use of biological agents for mining the ores and metals.This technique is less pollution and more energy efficient.Advanced analyses can help achieve a more consistent size and uniformity index for rocks, which could be really useful in construction and mining.And when it comes to soil reclamation, there are a variety of techniques that can be used, including the development of vegetation to help restore the soil to its natural state.
There are also different types of sustainable mining IoT for the cleanup and restoration of the mining land.
Few methods in this are implemented like electrokinetics remediation (ER), excavation and disposal, the process of re-vegetation, soil amendments, covering, subaqueous disposal, biosolids., chemical stabilization, biological treatment, Passivation technologies and reuse and reprocessing. 14

Inferences and Discussion
The above literature study understands the IoT application in the network of systems, this is applicable in the field of UIDs and QR codes, ultra-large network of things, service-oriented intelligence, privacy, security maintenance, and network heterogeneity as shown in Figure 5.
IoT and application-based technology is extensively being used in the market to meet the anthropogenic requirements.The second part of the review paper demonstrates the current trends in mining-related activities with the Internet of Things.IoT in mine monitoring includes Wi-fi connectivity, temperature control, GPS vehicles, maintenance, radio frequency, wireless mesh, alarm for safety, sensors, GPS trackers, CCTV cameras as graphically represented in Figure 6.The GIS and Remote Sensing spatial imagery is applied for large-scale projects to attain accuracy, and repetition, manage misuse of land use, monitor land degradation, monitoring natural resource depletion like water and soil.These are validated with the process of virtual ground reality checking.Software like ArcGIS-9.3 and ERDAS is used for documentation, analysis of the data from the spatial assessment, and monitoring of images generated.The limitation observed in IoT of Mines Monitoring (IMM) the scale of the project is very large, after obtaining the data from the mines with spatial and temporal images the integration of this data is not available.A need for such a tool in disaster monitoring and early warning system will help in taking precautionary decisions in IMM practices.It is very important to know that the application of the technologies for a small-scale land parcel of wasteland to a large-scale mining project acts as pivotal to the management of large-scale projects.
As land resources are valuable to us and it cannot be left in degraded condition for a longer time the usage of IoT helps in the management of environment, air quality, water management, land resources, land uses, etc.It is necessary to understand the gaps and highlight the technical advances for future research to be carried out in the field of IoT. 3

Lui
et al.(2014), has explained the various maps and provided a detailed planning scheme for the local government, this study would give an insight on decision making, land use policy and come with unique solutions.5

Fig. 1 :
Fig. 1: Methodology to collect the data for wastelands in IndiaSource: AuthorGIS application in MiningThe introduction of GIS to map wastelands in India started from the year 1986 when the Planning Commission of India defined that the poor management of soil and water leads to land deterioration and can be declared as degraded land (National Wasteland Development Board-NWDB, 1987).Geographical Information System enables us to identify the areas, integrate models, and make trade-off calculations.In India around 25% of the land is wasteland and the magnitude and importance of safeguarding the land resources are a responsibility.The methodology to collect the data of wasteland in India through satellite imagery is shown step-wise in Figure1.The authors Sahay S. and Walsham G.

( 1996 )
in their paper elaborated on the literature of how in developing countries implementation of GIS has been able to adapt, including the involvement of different sectors.It aims at developing a more comprehensive data management strategy, providing the balance between technical and social aspects of the projects. 6Remote Sensing for Spatial Data Analysis The author Mensah F. et al., in 2015 explains the loss of biodiversity, decline in agricultural productivity, forced migration and major socio-economic concerns in Ghana which has caused the land degradation and desertification.The comparative satellite images were used taking ArcGIS 9.3 and ERDAS imagine software.The objective of the study was to document the land degradation in Ghana and the model trends of land degradation and create a hazard map.It was found that 880.06 sq.km of the land was degraded in the Ghana region. 7Increasing community participation, education among the locals, vocational training programs, decision-making process, statutory regulation, and legislation implementations are the key to having socio-environmental sustainability. 8Internet of Things (IoT) Generation of wastelands are of large-scale and small-scale depending on the type of mining, the author Sunhare et al., (2020) in the study on various techniques employed in IoT application for the wasteland to formulate an intelligent environment.In this IoT environment the big data mining and cloud assisted IoT is well understood.

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Fig. 2: IoT Applications from small scale to large scale, Source 8 Artificial intelligence and computer science department are contributing on prototype smart IoT models to manufacture and work smartly.To name a few like Internet of Things (IoT), Mobile Computing (MC), Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN), Machine to Machine communication (M2M), Pervasive Computing (PC), Cyber-Physical System (CPS) etc.The IT sector is working on various other concepts to set standards for a sustainable and smart environment.8 8

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Fig 4: IoT application in the Network of System Source: Author

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Fig 6: Graphical presentation of IoT Application in Mining Source: Author 13