Structural analysis for gold mineralization using remote sensing and geochemical techniques in a GIS environment: Island of Lesvos, Hellas

Natural Resources Research

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 277-293

  Rokos, D ^a   Argialas, D ^a   Mavrantza, R ^a   St Seymour, K ^b   Vamvoukakis, C ^b   Kouli, M ^b   Lamera, S ^b   Paraskevas, H ^b   Karfakis, I ^c   Denes, G ^d  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND MINERAL EXPLORATION   (Greece)

^d Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alteration zones; Geochemistry; Mineral exploration; Satellite images; Spatial filtering

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037485438     PISSN: 15207439     EISSN: 15738981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1011505326148     Document Type: Article

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