Author(s)

Yu-Jun Zhang¹, Fo-Jun Yao^2*

¹China Aero-Geophysics and Remote Sensing Center for Land and Resources, Beijing, China.
²Key Laboratory of Metallogeny and Resources Assessment, Institute of Mineral Resources Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, Beijing, China.

The ASTER (Advanced Space-borne Thermal Emission and Reflection radiometer) data, including all the 3 parts: VNIR (Visible and Near-Infrared), SWIR (Short Wave Infrared), TIR (Thermal Infrared), were applied for extraction of mineral deposits, such as the Ni-Cu deposit in eastern Tianshan, the gypsum in western Tianshan, and the borax in Tibetan. This paper discusses the extraction methodology using the ASTER remote sensing data and reveals the good extraction results. This paper bravely represents the summary of the main achievement for this field by the scientists in other countries and gives a comparison with the works by others. The new achievements, described in this paper, comprise the extraction of anomalies for Ni-Cu deposit, gypsum, and borax.

SWIR (Short Wave Infrared), TIR (Thermal Infrared), RS (Remote Sensing), ETM (Enhanced Thematic Mapper), ASTER (Advanced Space-Borne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer), RS (Remote Sensing), EMR (Electromagnetic Radiation), SAM (Spectral Angle Mapper)

Zhang, Y. and Yao, F. (2015) Interpreting the Shortwave Infrared & Thermal Infrared Regions of Remote Sensed Electromagnetic Spectrum with Application for Mineral-Deposits Exploration. Journal of Applied Mathematics and Physics, 3, 254-261. doi: 10.4236/jamp.2015.32037.