Spaceborne mine waste mineralogy monitoring in South Africa, applications for modern push-broom missions: Hyperion/OLI and EnMAP/Sentinel-2

Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 6790-6816

  Mielke, Christian ^a,b   Boesche, Nina Kristine ^a,b   Rogass, Christian ^a   Kaufmann, Hermann ^a   Gauert, Christoph ^c   de Wit, Maarten ^d  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE FREE STATE   (South Africa)

^d NELSON MANDELA METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

EnMAP; Gold; Hyperion; Iron feature depth (IFD); Mine waste; OLI; Platinum; Sentinel 2; South Africa; Spatial extent

Indexed keywords

GOLD; LEAD; MAPPING; MICA; MINERALS; PLATINUM; URANIUM;

ENMAP; HYPERION; MINE WASTES; OLI; SENTINEL-2; SOUTH AFRICA; SPATIAL EXTENT;

IRON;

EID: 84905267855     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs6086790     Document Type: Article

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