Mapping Regolith and Gossan for Mineral Exploration in the Eastern Kumaon Himalaya, India using hyperion data and object oriented image classification

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 53, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1676-1685

  Farooq, S ^a   Govil, H ^a  

^a ALIGARH MUSLIM UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Gossan; Hyperspectral; Object oriented classification; Regolith

Indexed keywords

CLAY ALTERATION; DATA HANDLING; ECONOMIC GEOLOGY; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IRON OXIDES; MAGNETITE; METAL ANALYSIS; MICA; MINERAL EXPLORATION; MINERALOGY; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; PETROGRAPHY; PHOTOMAPPING; REMOTE SENSING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SILICATE MINERALS; SPACE OPTICS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; WEATHERING;

GOSSAN; HYPERSPECTRAL; HYPERSPECTRAL REMOTE SENSING; HYPERSPECTRAL REMOTE SENSING DATA; NONPARAMETRIC CLASSIFICATION; OBJECT ORIENTED CLASSIFICATION; OBJECT-BASED CLASSIFICATIONS; REGOLITH;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 84900445528     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: 18791948     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2013.04.002     Document Type: Article

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