Title: Integrating hyperspectral and radiometric remote sensing, spatial topographic analysis and surface geochemistry to assist mineral exploration in Southern Australia

Material Type: Book

Subject: mineral exploration--remote sensing--geochemistry--regolith

Subject: conference paper

Description: Exploration and mining companies in Australia are faced with the challenge of locating deep ore deposits buried under hundreds of metres of cover sequence. This research aimed to investigate how the integration of hyperspectral remote sensing and surface geochemistry can be used to identify potentially economic mineralisation under cover. While each of these methods are individually mature, their combination for the purpose of mineral exploration is novel. A variety of methods including classification of spatial data and radiometric imagery, hyperspectral alteration mineral mapping and lithogeochemical analysis produced useful results that might benefit exploration specifically in the study area. Further, the methods developed might benefit the wider Australian and international minerals industry, especially in areas where there is no obvious expression of alteration at the surface.

Date of Publication: 2019

Place of Publication: US

Publisher: IEEE

Date: 2019