Fuzzy weights of evidence method and its application in mineral potential mapping

Natural Resources Research

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 27-35

  Cheng, Qiuming ^a   Agterberg, F P ^b  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Data driven method; Fuzzy probability; Fuzzy set; Knowledge driven method; Mineral potential mapping; Weights of evidence

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001337485     PISSN: 15207439     EISSN: 15738981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1021677510649     Document Type: Review

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