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Remote Sensing for Mineral Exploration by Floyd F Sabins is a Earth and Planetary Sciences article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Remote Sensing for Mineral Exploration about?
Remote sensing is the science of acquiring, processing, and interpreting images and related data, acquired from aircraft and satellites, that record the interaction between matter and electromagnetic energy. Remote sensing images are used for Ž . Ž . mineral exploration in two applications: 1 map geology and the faults and fractures that localize ore deposits; 2 recognize Ž . hydrothermally altered rocks by their spectral signatures. Landsat thematic mapper TM satellite images are widely used to interpret both structure and hydrothermal alteration. Digitally processed TM ratio images can identify two assemblages of hydrothermal alteration minerals; iron minerals, and clays plus alunite. In northern Chile, TM ratio images defined the prospects that are now major copper deposits at Collahuasi and Ujina. Hyperspectral imaging systems can identify individual species of iron and clay minerals, which can provide details of hydrothermal zoning. Silicification, which is an important indicator of hydrothermal alteration, is not recognizable on TM and hyperspectral images. Quartz has no diagnostic spectral features in the visible and reflected IR wavelengths recorded by these systems. Variat
Who reads Remote Sensing for Mineral Exploration?
It is typically read by researchers, students, and practitioners in Earth and Planetary Sciences.
- Author
- Floyd F Sabins
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 1999
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Earth and Planetary Sciences (Physical Sciences)