MINEO is funded through the EU-commision and it's 5th Framework. The project consists of 9 partners from Denmark, Finland, Germany, England, Austria, Portugal, Italy and France.

General Objectives of the project is:

- Improving the already proven hyperspectral imagery capabilities in mineral mapping to the mapping of mining-related contaminated areas in European vegetated environments.

- Prepare tools for regular updating of environmental databases from very high-resolution future spaceborne missions.

These objectives are met through mapping at 6 mine test-sites in Europe and Greenland with different climatic and socio-economic background.

Department for Arctic Environment is, together with GEUS, responsible for the work carried out at the Arctic site in Mestersvig, NE-Greenland. The test-site at Mestersvig is centered around the old lead-zinc mine where mining took place between 1956-1963 and most environmental isssues are related to the redistribution of the tailings deposit.

Pollution from the mining is mainly related to the outwash and redistribution by wind of the old tailingsdeposit.

MINEO uses hyperspectral data aquired with the HyMap sensor. 10 strips covering the area from the mine to the fiord has been aquired at Mestersvig in August 2000. The strips are atmospherically corrected and mapping is done using field spectra and standard mapping methods (Spectral Angle Mapper, Mixture Tuned Matched Filtering).

The 10 strips that were aquired in August 2000.

• Further information about MINEO can be found at the MINEO Homepage.