Evaluation of image classification routines for determining modal mineralogy of rocks from X-ray maps

American Mineralogist

Volumn 92, Issue 11-12, 2007, Pages 1781-1788

  Maloy, Amy K ^a,b   Treiman, Allan H ^b  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LUNAR AND PLANETARY INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Element map; Image processing; Mineralogy; Modal analysis; Multispectral classification

Indexed keywords

CHROMITE; FELDSPAR; IMAGE PROCESSING; MINERALOGY; MODAL ANALYSIS; OLIVINE; PIXELS; ROCKS; SUPERVISED LEARNING; X RAYS;

CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; CONSTANT COMPOSITION; ELECTRON MICROPROBES; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHMS; MULTISPECTRAL CLASSIFICATION; MULTISPECTRAL IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; SUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION; UNSUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION;

IMAGE CLASSIFICATION;

ALGORITHM; CLINOPYROXENE; ELECTRON PROBE ANALYSIS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAP; MINERALOGY; OLIVINE; PIXEL; PLAGIOCLASE; SOFTWARE;

EID: 37148999375     PISSN: 0003004X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2138/am.2007.2477     Document Type: Article

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