This paper presents the usefulness of remote sensing data processing and analysis of Sentinel-2 imagery acquired during the winter period of year 2018 to aid the geological mapping of six 1:50,000 scale map sheets of ...This paper presents the usefulness of remote sensing data processing and analysis of Sentinel-2 imagery acquired during the winter period of year 2018 to aid the geological mapping of six 1:50,000 scale map sheets of Giyani Greenstone Belt area of South Africa.Images of different band ratios and band combinations were experimented using ENVI and SNAP to identify suitable band/band ratio combinations to produce false colour composites(FCCs)that enabled the discrimination of surface features(land/water/vegetation)and the geology of the area through identification of lithological units,structural features and lineaments present.展开更多
文摘This paper presents the usefulness of remote sensing data processing and analysis of Sentinel-2 imagery acquired during the winter period of year 2018 to aid the geological mapping of six 1:50,000 scale map sheets of Giyani Greenstone Belt area of South Africa.Images of different band ratios and band combinations were experimented using ENVI and SNAP to identify suitable band/band ratio combinations to produce false colour composites(FCCs)that enabled the discrimination of surface features(land/water/vegetation)and the geology of the area through identification of lithological units,structural features and lineaments present.
