Lithologic and mineral information extraction for gold exploration using ASTER data in the south Chocolate Mountains (California)

ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 271-282

  Zhang, Xianfeng ^a   Pazner, Micha ^a   Duke, Norman ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alteration mineral detection; ASTER sensor; Constrained energy minimization; Lithologic classification; Subpixel unmixing

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE ACQUISITION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LITHOLOGY; MAPPING; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; ROCKS;

ALTERATION MINERAL DETECTION; ASTER DATA; CONSTRAINED ENERGY MINIMIZATION; SUBPIXEL UNMIXING; SWIR CHANNELS;

GOLD;

ALGORITHM; ASTER; DATA MINING; EXTRACTION; GOLD; LITHOLOGY; MAPPING METHOD; MINERAL DEPOSIT; MINERAL EXPLORATION; REMOTE SENSING;

CALIFORNIA; CHOCOLATE MOUNTAINS; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34548316152     PISSN: 09242716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2007.04.004     Document Type: Article

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