f Possibility of Gas Hydrate Exploration Using Multispectral Thermal Infrared Imaging

1 P564 POSSIBILITY OF GAS HYDRATE EXPLORATION USING MULTISPECTRAL THERMAL INFRARED IMAGING Y.-H. ZHU Z.-Q. LU and B.-H. WU Institute of Mineral Resources Chinese Academy of Geological sciences Baiwanzhuang Road 26 100037 Beijing China Abstract Gas hydrate is a solid phase of water and low-molecular weight gases (mostly methane) that forms at high pressures and low temperature. It has become the focus of international interest over the past few years because of its abundance and its potential importance as energy resources controlling factor of global climatic change and trigger of sea floor instability. Many geological geophysical and geochemical methods in