Geologists have used remote sensing data since the advent of the technology for regional
mapping, structural interpretation and to aid in prospecting for ores and hydrocarbons. This …

Remote sensing, as a direct adjunct to field, lithologic and structural mapping, and more
recently, GIS have played an important role in the study of mineralized areas. A review on …

Principal component analysis (PCA) is an image processing technique that has been
commonly applied to Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) data to locate hydrothermal alteration …

Soil erosion by water is a significant problem in arid and semi-arid areas of large parts of
Iran. Water erosion is one of the most effective phenomena that leads to decreasing soil …

Abstract In the Gabal Shulman area of the southeastern desert of Egypt, ASTER and
geophysical aeromagnetic data provide useful information for detecting hydrothermal …

Mapping mineral prospectivity (MPM) is mostly beset with prediction uncertainties, which are
generally categorized into (a) stochastic and (b) systemic types. The stochastic type is …

Abstract The Shahr-e-Babak region located in the Kerman metallogenic belt is one of the
high potential segments of Urumieh–Dokhtar magmatic arc for porphyry copper and …

The use of satellite images for mineral exploration has been very successful in pointing out
the presence of minerals such as smectite and kaolinite which are important in the …

Many of the known porphyry copper deposits in Iran are situated in the Central Iranian
volcanic Belt. The area under study is located in the southern part of this belt and covers an …

Two common problems affect integration of exploration criteria for mineral prospectivity
mapping (MPM) in geographic information system (GIS):(a) stochastic error associated with …