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

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