Applications of Remote Sensing in Remediation of Contaminated Water and Soil

This paper reviews the use of remote sensing for practical applications in remediation of contaminated water and soil. Due to their flexibility of use, the Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) open interesting new prospects in the management of remediation of contaminated water and soil regarding various aspects such as sources of contamination, spatial dimension of contamination, level of contamination. However, the specificity of this kind of vehicles and of the sensors that they are capable to transport still requires detailed research work before making it fully operational for most of the unspecialized human resource existing in remediation of contaminated water and soil sectors.