ASTER Mineral Index Processing Manual

ASTER Mineral Index Processing Manual, Complied by Aleks Kalinowski and Simon Oliver, October 2004.

ASTER is the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer, a multi-spectral sensor onboard one of NASA's Earth Observing System satellites, Terra, which was launched in 1999. ASTER sensors measure reflected and emitted electromagnetic radiation from Earth's surface and atmosphere in 14 channels (or bands). There are three groups of channels: three recording visible and near infrared radiation (VNIR), at a spatial resolution of 15m; six recording portions of shortwave infrared radiation (SWIR) at a spatial resolution of 30m; and five recording thermal infrared radiation (TIR) at a resolution of 90m. The higher spectral resolution of ASTER (compared to Landsat, for example - Fig.1) especially in the shortwave infrared region of the electromagnetic spectrum makes it possible to identify minerals and mineral groups such as clays, carbonates, silica, iron-oxides and other silicates. An additional backward-looking band in the VNIR makes it possible to construct digital elevation models from bands 3 and 3b. ASTER swath width is 60km (each scene is 60 x 60km) which makes it useful for regional mapping.

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Download the ASTER Mineral Index Processing Manual (pdf)

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