Assessment of Ecological Cumulative Effect due to Mining Disturbance Using Google Earth Engine
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
This paper is an analysis of environmental problems caused by Chinese mines using Landsat images. It's good to show that mine mining has had a big impact, but the Landsat image method and the Google engine method are common and not scientifically important. Therefore, why not summarize the methods and results in a more compact way and show only the changes due to important mines? There are too many figures. There are too many abbreviations for the reader to read comfortably. If it can be summarized within 10 pages, it will be easy to read and meaningful.
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Reviewer 2 Report
Although it is not an absolute novelty, given the numerous studies that analyze the change in ecosystem services in mining areas, even using the Google Earth engine, the paper has the merit of highlighting the synergistic relationships between the cumulative values of ecosystem services.
Some improvements are possible and necessary.
1. Figures 8 and 9 are quite unclear. Especially in the case of Figure 9, the legend at the bottom is illegible.
2. Did the reclamation works start in the same year as the mining works? (see figure 4)
3. Figure 5 does not appear to be a classification, but rather an evolution.
4. In my opinion, the values in Table 4 are not sufficiently explained. (lines 394-415)
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Reviewer 3 Report
Figure 3 is blur. Please use vector image, such as EPS, pdf, svg format rather than png or jpg.
Author Response
Dear Reviewer,
Thanks a lot for your comments concerning our manuscript entitled “Assessment of ecological cumulative effect due to mining disturbance using Google Earth Engine” (Manuscript ID: remotesensing- 1813438). Those comments are all valuable and very helpful for revising and improving our paper, as well as the important guiding significance to our research. Consequently, we have studied the comments carefully and have tried our best to revise them.
- Figure 3 is blur. Please use vector image, such as EPS, pdf, svg format rather than png or jpg.
Thank you very much for your appreciation of our work. The formatting of all images in the paper has been modified to clear images, including font size, image descriptions, and other corrections have been made.
Thanks again! We are very grateful for your comments. If there were any problems, please don't hesitate to inform us.
Round 2
Reviewer 1 Report
The revised manuscript revised the problems I pointed out. I hope this research will continue and that the environmental assessment of the mines in China will be carried out correctly.
Author Response
- The revised manuscript revised the problems I pointed out. I hope this research will continue and that the environmental assessment of the mines in China will be carried out correctly.Response: Thank you for your valuable comments. We will continue our research on the environmental assessment of mines. In addition, We have modified Figure 1 and Figure 7, and have invited a special retouching company to provide English editing services, with proof of polishing.
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Reviewer 2 Report
Congratulations for your work!
Author Response
1. Congratulations for your work!
Response: Thank you very much for your appreciation of our work.
