METHOD OF DETECTING AND MAPPING MINERALS AND OTHER GEOLOGICAL PHENOMENA UTILIZING AIRBORNE IMAGING SPECTROMETERS

摘要

A method and apparatus for detecting and mapping minerals and other geological phenomena (21) using data gathered by imaging spectrometer (23) and processing the data with a neural network (26). The neural network (26) is trained to recognize minerals by processing the data from known minerals and adjusting a set of interconnected weights in the neural network (26) to obtain a predetermined output value (27).