Research on Scale Improvement of Geochemical Exploration Based on Remote Sensing Image Fusion

Abstract

Both remote sensing and geochemical exploration technologies are effective tools for detecting target objects. Although information on anomalous geochemical elemental abundances differs in terms of professional attributes from remote sensing data, both are based on geological bodies or phenomena on the Earth’s surface. Therefore, exploring the use of remote sensing data with high spatial resolution to improve the accuracy of small-scale geochemical data, and fusing them to obtain large-scale geochemical layers could provide new data for geological and mineral exploration through inversion. This study provides a method of fusing remote sensing images with small-scale geochemical data based on a linear regression model that improves the resolution of geochemical elemental layers and provides reference data for mineral exploration in areas lacking large-scale geochemical data. In the Xianshuigou area of Northwest China, a fusion study was conducted using 200,000 geochemical and remote sensing data. The method provides fused large-scale regional chemical data in well-exposed areas where large-scale geochemical data are lacking and could provide potential data sources for regional mineral exploration.

Keywords

• geochemical exploration
• remote sensing
• image fusion
• mineral exploration