Discrimination of iron ore deposits of granulite terrain of Southern Peninsular India using ASTER data

Journal of Asian Earth Sciences

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 99-106

  Rajendran, Sankaran ^a   Thirunavukkarasu, A ^b   Balamurugan, G ^c   Shankar, K ^d  

^a SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY   (Oman)

^b BHARATHIDASAN UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c SATHYABAMA UNIVERSITY   (India)

^d ANNAMALAI UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

ASTER image processing; Granulite terrain of Southern India; Iron ores; Lithological mapping; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

ASTER; GEOLOGICAL MAPPING; GRANULITE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; IRON ORE; LITHOLOGY; MINERAL EXPLORATION; ORE BODY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPECTRAL REFLECTANCE;

INDIA; SALEM [TAMIL NADU]; TAMIL NADU;

EID: 79952699159     PISSN: 13679120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jseaes.2011.01.004     Document Type: Article

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