Rock type classification of drill core using continuous wavelet analysis applied to thermal infrared reflectance spectra

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 32, Issue 16, 2011, Pages 4489-4510

  Feng, J ^a   Rivard, B ^a   Gallie, A ^b   Sanchez Azofeifa, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFRARED RADIATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; MINERALS; REFLECTION; ROCKS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; THERMAL LOGGING; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

CONTINUOUS WAVELET ANALYSIS; CONTINUOUS WAVELET TRANSFORMS; MAPPING ACCURACY; MODELLING AND VALIDATION; REFLECTANCE SPECTRUM; SCALE OF OBSERVATION; SPECTRAL ANGLE MAPPERS; TEXTURAL HETEROGENEITIES;

WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CORE LOGGING; ROCK MASS CLASSIFICATION; SPECTRAL REFLECTANCE; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TEXTURE; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

CANADA; ONTARIO [CANADA]; SUDBURY BASIN;

EID: 80052137341     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2010.489060     Document Type: Article

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