Multispectral and Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Data for Mineral Exploration and Environmental Monitoring of Mined Areas

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2021
• Subjects: Advanced Space borne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER); Ahar-Arasbaran region; Antarctica; argillization; ASTER; band ratios; Bayesian Network Classifiers; Bowers Terrane; canopy scale; carbonate-hosted Pb-Zn mineralization; Carlin-type; Cartagena–La Unión; copper-gold mineralization; damage zones; data fusion; decarbonatization; dimensionality reduction; dolomite; drill-core; drones; dust dispersion; Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning; Egypt; Egyptian Eastern Desert; electrical resistivity imaging; emissivity; emissivity normalization method; epithermal gold; fuzzy logic; fuzzy logic modeling; Geography; geologic mapping; gold mineralization; Goldstrike; High Arctic regions; hydrothermal alteration; hydrothermal/metasomatic alteration minerals; hydrothermally altered zones; hyperspectral; hyperspectral imaging; independent component analysis; Iran; Kashmar–Kerman tectonic zone (KKTZ); Landsat-7 ETM; Landsat-8; listvenite; machine learning; magnetic; Mar Menor; metals; mineral abundance mapping; mineral association; mineral exploration; minimum noise fraction; mining; mining area; multispectral; multispectral and hyperspectral data; multispectral and radar data; Najd Fault System; Northern Victoria Land; phosphorite; pixel scale; polymetallic vein-type mineralization; principal component analysis; principal component analysis (PCA); Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects; relative band depth (RBD); remote sensing; Research and information: general; riverbed; Sentinel 2; South Eastern Desert; spectra; structural control; SWIR; Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data; tailings; the Inglefield Mobile Belt (IMB); Toroud–Chahshirin Magmatic Belt (TCMB); transpression and transtension zones; UAV; unmanned aerial systems; Wadi Beitan–Wadi Rahaba; WorldView-3

In recent decades, remote sensing technology has been incorporated in numerous mineral exploration projects in metallogenic provinces around the world. Multispectral and hyperspectral sensors play a significant role in affording unique data for mineral exploration and environmental hazard monitoring...