Digital map of hydrothermal alteration type, key mineral groups, and green vegetation of the northwestern United States derived from automated analysis of ASTER satellite data

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Identification_Information:

Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: Rockwell, Barnaby W.
Originator: Bonham, Lindsey C.
Publication_Date: 2017
Title:

Digital map of hydrothermal alteration type, key mineral groups, and green vegetation of the northwestern United States derived from automated analysis of ASTER satellite data

Edition: 1.0
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: Raster digital data
Series_Information:

Series_Name: USGS data release
Issue_Identification: 10.5066/F7CR5RK7

Publication_Information:

Publication_Place: Denver, CO
Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey

Online_Linkage: https://doi.org/10.5066/F7CR5RK7

Description:

Abstract:

Mineral groups identified through automated analysis of remote sensing data acquired by the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) were used to generate a map showing the type and spatial distribution of hydrothermal alteration, other exposed mineral groups, and green vegetation across the northwestern conterminous United States. Boolean algebra was used to combine mineral groups identified through analysis of visible, near-infrared, and shortwave-infrared ASTER data into attributed alteration types and mineral classes based on common mineralogical definitions of such types and the minerals present within the mineral groups. Alteration types modeled in this way can be stratified relative to acid producing and neutralizing potential to aid in geoenvironmental watershed studies. This mapping was performed in support of multidisciplinary studies involving the predictive modeling of mineral deposit occurrence and geochemical environments at watershed to regional scales. These studies seek to determine the relative effects of mining and non-anthropogenic hydrothermal alteration on watershed surface water geochemistry and faunal populations. The presence or absence of hydrothermally-altered rocks and (or) specific mineral groups can be used to model the favorability of occurrence of certain types of mineral deposits, and aid in the delineation of permissive tracts for these deposits. These data were used as a data source for the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Sagebrush Mineral-Resource Assessment (SaMiRA). This map, in ERDAS Imagine (.img) format, has been attributed by pixel value with material identification data that can be queried in most image processing and GIS software packages. Three files are included with this product: file with .img extension contains thematic image attributes and geographic projection data, file with .ige extension contains the raster data, and the file with .rrd extension includes pyramid data for fast display.

Purpose:

The purpose of the image is to display the spatial distribution of hydrothermal alteration types, key mineral groups, and green vegetation modeled by automated analysis of ASTER satellite remote sensing data covering the northwestern United States.

Supplemental_Information:

These data represent version 2 of the mosaic of the northwestern U.S. produced on June 11, 2013 using algorithm build AA61.

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Ending_Date: 20071001

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Theme:

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Theme_Keyword: geoscientificInformation

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Theme_Keyword: propylitic
Theme_Keyword: mineral mapping
Theme_Keyword: ASTER
Theme_Keyword: advanced argillic
Theme_Keyword: hydrothermal alteration type
Theme_Keyword: phyllic
Theme_Keyword: remote sensing
Theme_Keyword: epithermal

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Place_Keyword: Washington
Place_Keyword: North Dakota
Place_Keyword: Oregon
Place_Keyword: Montana
Place_Keyword: Idaho
Place_Keyword: Wyoming
Place_Keyword: Nebraska
Place_Keyword: South Dakota

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Acknowledgement of the U.S. Geological Survey would be appreciated in products derived from these data. Data have been checked to ensure the accuracy of the data. If any errors are detected, please notify the originating office. The U.S. Geological Survey strongly recommends that careful attention be paid to the metadata file associated with these data. Although this Federal Geographic Data Committee-compliant metadata file is intended to document the data set in nonproprietary form, as well as in ArcGIS and ERDAS Imagine formats, this metadata file may include some terminology specific to those software packages.

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Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey
Contact_Person: Barnaby W. Rockwell

Contact_Position: Research Geophysicist
Contact_Address:

Address_Type: Mailing
Address: Box 25046, Mail Stop 973
City: Denver
State_or_Province: Colorado
Postal_Code: 80225
Country: US

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Cross_Reference:

Citation_Information:

Originator: Rockwell, Barnaby W.
Publication_Date: 20110101
Title:

Description and validation of an automated methodology for mapping mineralogy, vegetation, and hydrothermal alteration type from ASTER satellite imagery with examples from the san juan mountains, Colorado

Series_Information:

Series_Name: Scientific Investigations Map
Issue_Identification: 3190

Publication_Information:

Publication_Place: Denver, CO
Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey

Online_Linkage: https://pubs.usgs.gov/sim/3190

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Methods used to derive these data are described in https://pubs.usgs.gov/sim/3190/contents/SIM3190_pam.pdf .

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Argillic (kandite clay +/- sericite +/- smectite) +/- minor advanced argillic

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Ferrous or coarse-grained ferric iron (may include oxidized basalts, fire ash, some moist soils, and any blue/green rocks)

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Dry vegetation in fallow agricultural fields - deep 2.17 and 2.20 micron absorption (identified as argillic, class 4, yellow)

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Dry, yellow/brown veg. in fallow agricultural fields - 2.17 and 2.20 micron absorption (identified as argillic + Fe, class 11, orange)

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Dry vegetation in fallow agricultural fields - deep 2.17 micron absorption (identified as advanced argilllic, class 3, red)

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Results of merging of mineral groups identified through automated analysis of ASTER multispectral data. The digital number (DN) values in this image have been attributed by modeled alteration type, mineral group, or green vegetation as shown in the following table. Each DN value corresponds to a particular color in the included color table. All pixels identified as a particular alteration type or mineral group have been assigned a single, discrete color. Pixels with a DN value of zero indicate either that no materials were identified or that no input spectral data were available. There are no DN data values in the range of 24-44 or greater than 50.

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47    451561 0.627 0.318 0.176 1       Dry vegetation in fallow agricultural fields - deep 2.17 micron absorption (identified as advanced argilllic, class 3, red)
48  21435017 0.149 0.149 0.149 1       No data (clouds, cloud shadow, smoke, haze, data errors)
49 103303300 0.2   0.2   0.2   1       Semi-corrupted SWIR band 5: identified advanced argillic and argillic alteration may be unreliable
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