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Science 20 February 1981:
Vol. 211. no. 4484, pp. 781 - 791
DOI: 10.1126/science.211.4484.781
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Geologic Remote Sensing

Alexander F. H. Goetz 1 and Lawrence C. Rowan 2

1 Senior member of the technical staff of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena 91109
2 Geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, Virginia 22092

Remote-sensing techniques are now being used routinely in geologic interpretation for mineral and energy exploration, plant siting, waste disposal, and the development of models for regional and continental tectonics. New spaceborne methods and associated technologies are being developed to produce data from which geologic information about large areas can be derived much more rapidly than by conventional techniques.


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Mineral Identification from Orbit: Initial Results from the Shuttle Multispectral Infrared Radiometer.
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