Landsat-TM-based discrimination of lithological units associated with the Purtuniq ophiolite, Quebec, Canada

Remote Sensing

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1208-1231

  Leverington, David W ^a   Moon, Wooil M ^b  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Deconvolution; Geology; Neural network; Reflectance; Thematic mapper

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ALTERATION; ENDMEMBERS; FEEDFORWARD BACKPROPAGATION NEURAL NETWORKS; FRACTION IMAGES; GEOLOGICAL MATERIALS; GREENSTONE BELTS; GROUND BASED MEASUREMENT; GROUND REFLECTANCE; GROUND TRUTH; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; LANDSAT TM DATA; LINEAR UNMIXING; MULTISPECTRAL DATASETS; NEURAL NETWORK CLASSIFIER; PROTEROZOIC; QUEBEC , CANADA; REFLECTANCE PROPERTIES; STUDY AREAS; SURFACE COVER; SURFACE MATERIALS; THEMATIC MAPPERS; UNMIXING;

CHARACTERIZATION; DECONVOLUTION; GEOLOGY; NEURAL NETWORKS; REFLECTION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

LITHOLOGY;

EID: 84861426203     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs4051208     Document Type: Article

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