Mapping mineralization probabilities using multilayer perceptrons

Natural Resources Research

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 109-123

  Skabar, Andrew A ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Mineral exploration; Mineral potential mapping; Neural networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 23944453937     PISSN: 15207439     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11053-005-6955-z     Document Type: Article

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