Use of noise to augment training data: A neural network method of mineral-potential mapping in regions of limited known deposit examples

Natural Resources Research

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 141-152

  Brown, Warick M ^a,b   Gedeon, Tamás D ^a   Groves, David I ^b  

^a MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Archean orogenic gold deposits; Geographic information systems (GIS); Mineral prospectivity maps; Multilayer perceptrons (MLP); Neural networks; Random noise

Indexed keywords

EID: 23944483793     PISSN: 15207439     EISSN: 15738981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1024218913435     Document Type: Article

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