Red Mud Disaster
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On October 4, 2010, Hungary faced the worst environmental disaster in its history, when the embankment of a toxic waste reservoir failed and released a mixture of 600 to 700 thousand cubic meters of red mud and water. Lower parts of the settlements of Kolontár, Devecser and Somlóvásárhely villages were flooded. Ten people died, and another 120 people were injured. The red mud flooded 800 hectares of surrounding areas. BLOM together with Károly Róbert College, which is a Hungarian scientific research institute in remote sensing, processed the data acquired with Leica ALS LiDAR, thermal, and hyper-spectral imaging technologies in order to map the scale of damage caused by red mud leakage, and to compensate the property owner for the loss.
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