Towards the automated analysis of regional aeromagnetic data to identify regions prospective for gold deposits

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 34, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1505-1513

  Holden, Eun Jung ^a   Dentith, Mike ^a   Kovesi, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aeromagnetics; Feature detection; Gold; Image processing; Prospectivity; Texture analysis

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DATA PROCESSING; DEPOSITS; GARNETS; GOLD; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; LITHOLOGY; LOCATION; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; MINERAL INDUSTRY; MINERALS; MINING; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); SILICA; SILICATE MINERALS; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

AEROMAGNETIC DATA; ARCHAEAN; AUTOMATED ANALYSIS; AUTOMATIC DETECTION; AUTOMATIC IMAGE PROCESSING; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; GEOSCIENTIFIC DATA; GOLD MINERALISATION; MAGNETIC (CE); MINERAL DEPOSITS; MINERALISATION; MINING INDUSTRIES; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SHEAR ZONES; STRUCTURAL COMPLEXITY; SYMMETRY FEATURES; TEXTURE ANALYSIS; WESTERN AUSTRALIA (WA);

GOLD DEPOSITS;

AEROMAGNETIC SURVEY; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; GOLD; IMAGE PROCESSING; LODE DEPOSIT; MINERALIZATION;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; WESTERN AUSTRALIA; YILGARN BLOCK;

EID: 48749118652     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2007.08.007     Document Type: Article

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