Synergetic Usage of Hyperspectral Remote Sensing and Machine Learning in Detection and Mapping of Iron Ore Deposit Hotspots: A Case Study from Northern Odisha, India
摘要
Government of India strategic studies rightly mentions that there exist technological gaps in mineral exploration, particularly with respect to hyperspectral remote sensing to detect and characterize mineralized hotspots. In the present study, classification of EO-1 Hyperion (hyperspectral) data has been attempted using the SAM algorithm of ENVI and several ML techniques as a novel integrated approach dedicated to the detection and mapping of iron ore minerals from open cast projects in Northern Odisha. Spectrally pure pixels available in the Top of the Atmosphere corrected reflectance Hyperion image were devolved into three major endmembers, viz. iron ore mines and fallow lands. The employed ML techniques indicated that XGBoost, Random Forest, and SMOTE-RF provided the most accurate predictions for the detection of iron ore mines, whereas LightGBM and Naïve Bayes showed some uncertainties. This technique, in a holistic way, holds promise for the automatic detection of iron ore mines in relatively unexplored but potentially enriched mineralized zones.