Gold resources potential assessment in eastern Kunlun Mountains of China combining weights-of-evidence model with GIS spatial analysis technique

Chinese Geographical Science

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 461-470

  He, Binbin ^a   Chen, Cuihua ^b   Liu, Yue ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b CHENGDU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Conditional independence; Eastern kunlun mountains; Mineral resources potential assessment; Spatial analysis; Weights of evidence model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890953097     PISSN: 10020063     EISSN: 1993064X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11769-010-0420-6     Document Type: Article

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