Ore grade estimation of a limestone deposit in India using an artificial neural network

Applied GIS

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Chatterjee, S ^a   Bhattacherjee, A ^a   Samanta, B ^a   Pal, S K ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; GEOSTATISTICS; KRIGING; LIMESTONE; LITHOLOGY; ORE DEPOSIT; ORE GRADE;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 33748329529     PISSN: 18325505     EISSN: 18325505     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2104/ag060003     Document Type: Article

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