Clustering of mineral prospectivity area as an unsupervised classification approach to explore copper deposit

Arabian Journal of Geosciences

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 3601-3613

  Abedi, Maysam ^a   Norouzi, Gholam Hossain ^a   Torabi, Seyed Ali ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Copper deposit; Fuzzy c means clustering; GIS; Mineral prospectivity mapping; Self organizing mapping

Indexed keywords

COPPER; DRILLING; ECONOMIC GEOLOGY; FAULT ZONE; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; GEOLOGICAL MAPPING; GIS; MAP; MINERAL DEPOSIT; MINERALOGY; UNSUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION; VECTOR;

IRAN; KERMAN [IRAN];

EID: 84884393190     PISSN: 18667511     EISSN: 18667538     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12517-012-0615-5     Document Type: Article

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