Remote sensing information of mineralizing alteration extraction methods

Remote sensing technology is considered a fast and effective method to prospect ore. Now, this method is used in Gejiu tin deposit of YunNan in order to extract more accurate mineralization abnormal information. In this study, first through the band math method and principal component analysis method, the mineralization alternation can be extracted in ETM data. Then using ASTER data the limonitization, the chloritization and the dolomitization are extracted by the spectral angle method. At last, the trace elements of the vegetation are statistically analyzed and the vegetation mineralization alteration information is extracted by two different methods in ASTER data. The result shows that the alternation information distributions are consistent in the east-south study area and match with the field exploration. Consequently the extracted results are effective.