Use of fuzzy membership input layers to combine subjective geological knowledge and empirical data in a neural network method for mineral-potential mapping

Natural Resources Research

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 183-200

  Brown, Warick ^a,b   Groves, David ^b   Gedeon, Tamás ^a  

^a MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Archean orogenic gold deposits; Geographic information systems (GIS); Hybrid fuzzy neural systems; Mineral prospectivity maps; Multilayer perceptrons (MLP); Neural networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947234500     PISSN: 15207439     EISSN: 15738981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1025175904545     Document Type: Conference Paper

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