Purchase Export Search ScienceDirect Advanced search

Article outline Show full outline

Abstract
Keywords
1. Introduction
2. Remote sensing technology
3. Mineral exploration overview OreGeologyReviews
4. Mapping hydrothermal alteration at
Volume14,Issues34,September1999,Pages157183
5. Mapping hydrothermal alteration at
6. Borate minerals Salar de Uyuni,
7. Mineral exploration in covered terrain
8. Future technology
9. Summary Remotesensingformineralexploration
Acknowledgements
References FloydFSabins
Showmore

Figures and tables http://doi.org/10.1016/S01691368(99)000074 Getrightsandcontent

Table 1

Abstract
Remotesensingisthescienceofacquiring,processing,andinterpretingimagesand
relateddata,acquiredfromaircraftandsatellites,thatrecordtheinteractionbetweenmatter
andelectromagneticenergy.Remotesensingimagesareusedformineralexplorationin
twoapplications:(1)mapgeologyandthefaultsandfracturesthatlocalizeoredeposits(2)
recognizehydrothermallyalteredrocksbytheirspectralsignatures.Landsatthematic
mapper(TM)satelliteimagesarewidelyusedtointerpretbothstructureandhydrothermal
alteration.DigitallyprocessedTMratioimagescanidentifytwoassemblagesof
hydrothermalalterationmineralsironminerals,andclaysplusalunite.InnorthernChile,TM
ratioimagesdefinedtheprospectsthatarenowmajorcopperdepositsatCollahuasiand
Ujina.Hyperspectralimagingsystemscanidentifyindividualspeciesofironandclay
minerals,whichcanprovidedetailsofhydrothermalzoning.Silicification,whichisan
importantindicatorofhydrothermalalteration,isnotrecognizableonTMandhyperspectral
Table 2
images.QuartzhasnodiagnosticspectralfeaturesinthevisibleandreflectedIR
wavelengthsrecordedbythesesystems.Variationsinsilicacontentarerecognizablein
multispectralthermalIRimages,whichisapromisingtopicforresearch.

Keywords
remotesensingmineralexplorationthematicmapper(TM)Goldfieldminingdistrict

Chooseanoptiontolocate/accessthisarticle:

Checkifyouhaveaccess
Purchase$37.95
throughyourlogincredentials
Table 3
oryourinstitution

Checkaccess

Tel.:+17148794367email:ffsabins@home.com
Copyright1999ElsevierScienceB.V.Allrightsreserved.
Table 4

AboutScienceDirect Remoteaccess Shoppingcart Contactandsupport

Termsandconditions Privacypolicy

Cookiesareusedbythissite.Formoreinformation,visitthecookiespage.
Copyright2017ElsevierB.V.oritslicensorsorcontributors.ScienceDirectisaregisteredtrademark
ofElsevierB.V.
 Purchase Export Search ScienceDirect Advanced search

Recommended articles
Multi- andoutline
Article hyperspectral geologic remote sensi
Show full outline
2012, International Journal of Applied Earth Observation m ore
Abstract

Detecting areas of high-potential gold mineraliz

Keywords
1. Introduction
2010, Ore Geology Reviews m ore
2. Remote sensing technology

Mineral mapping in the Kap Simpson complex,

3. Mineral exploration overview
4. Mapping hydrothermal alteration at
2011, Advances in Space Research m ore
5. Mapping hydrothermal alteration at
6. Borate minerals Salar de Uyuni,
View more articles
7. Mineral exploration in covered terrain
8. Future technology

Citing articles (186)

9. Summary
Acknowledgements
References

Related book content

Figures and tables
Table 1

Table 2

Table 3

Table 4