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DOI: 10.22606/gr.2017.23005

• S.Arivazhagan^*
  Centre for Applied Geology, The Gandhigram Rural Institute - Deemed Univesity, Dindigul - 624302, India
• S. Anbazhagan
  
  Centre for Geoinformatics and Planetary Studies, Periyar University, Salem – 636 011, India

ASTER is an advanced Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer, a multispectral sensor, which measures reflected and emitted electromagnetic radiation of earth surface with 14 bands. The present study aims to delineate different rock types in the Sittampundi Anorthositic Complex (SAC), Tamil Nadu using Visible (VIS), near-infrared (NIR) and short wave infrared (SWIR) reflectance data of ASTER 9 band data. We used different band ratioing, band combinations in the VNIR and SWIR region for discriminating lithological boundaries. SAC is also considered as a lunar highland analog rock. Anorthosite is a plagioclase-rich igneous rock with subordinate amounts of pyroxenes, olivine and other minerals. A methodology has been applied to correct the cross talk effect and radiance to reflectance. Principal Component Analysis (PCA) has been realized on the 9 ASTER bands in order to reduce the redundancy information in highly correlated bands. PCA derived FCC results enable the validation and support to demarcate the different lithological boundaries defined on previous geological map. The image derived spectral profiles for anorthosite are compared with the ASTER resampled laboratory spectra, JHU spectral library spectra and Apollo 14 lunar anorthosites spectra. The Spectral Angle Mapping imaging spectroscopy technique has been practiced to classify the ASTER image of the study area and found that, the processing of ASTER remote sensing data set can be used as a powerful tool for mapping the terrestrial Anorthositic regions and similar kind of process could be applied to map the planetary surfaces (E.g. Moon).

Anorthosites, ASTER, image processing, remote sensing.

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