f Ground Truthing & Spectral Geology Mineral Exploration - Challenges & Opportunities

Hyperspectral data is becoming increasingly accessible to the mineral exploration industry, and this is only expected to increase with the launch of new hyperspectral (HS) satellites in the future. The use of multispectral (MS) data, such as ASTER, has increased significantly in mineral exploration the last decade, and this t rend is expected to continue. The upcoming launch of WorldView-3, with bandwidths that both replicate those of ASTER-SWIR+, and include those from WorldView-2, a high resolution satellite will propagate this trend.