@Research Paper <#LINE#>Hyperion Image Analysis for Iron Ore Mapping in Gua Iron Ore Region, Jharkhand, India<#LINE#>Kiran Kumari@Sharma,Debashish@Chakravarty,Pulakesh@Das,Jatisankar@Bandhopadhyay<#LINE#>1-6<#LINE#>1. ISCA-IRJES-2014-012.pdf<#LINE#>Agricultural and Food Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, West Bengal, INDIA @ Mining Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, Kharagpur, West Bengal, INDIA @ School of Water Resources, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, Kharagpur, West Bengal, INDIA @ Remote Sensing and GIS Department, Vidyasagar University, Midnapore Midnapore, West Bengal, INDIA<#LINE#>20/5/2014<#LINE#>19/9/2014<#LINE#>The paper introduces the concepts and application of hyperspectral remote sensing technology in mineral identification over Gua Iron Ore Mine, Jharkhand, India. Reflectance and emittance spectroscopy in the VNIR and SWIR regions offer an effective way in mineral identification and possible localized mapping. EO-1 Hyperion hyperspectral data has been used for the identification of Feore minerals. The first requirement is to compensate for the atmospheric effects. Hyperspectral image processing technology for mineral identification is based on spectral classification which comprises of three basic steps: i. MNF transformation to reduce noise and spectral data dimensionality, ii. the PPI for spatial dimension reduction and extraction of pure pixels and iii. n-D Visualization and endmember collection. These extracted endmembers are then compared using a mineral spectral library distributed from USGS as a reference and are used in Spectral Angle Mapping (SAM) to classify the image for identifying the occurrences of same minerals. The results revealed the potential use of Hyperion data in mineral identification. <#LINE#> @ @ Sahoo S.,Monitoring urban Land use land cover change by Multi-Temporal remote sensing information in Howrah city, International Research Journal of Earth Sciences, IndiaVol. 1(5), 1-6,October (2013) @No $ @ @ S.S.S., Upadhyay R, Srivastav S.K. and Prabhakaran, Mineral Abundance Mapping Using Hyperion Dataset in Part of Udaipur Dist Rajasthan, India, Indian Geospatial Forum, (2012) @No $ @ @ Detailed Information Dossier (DID) on iron ores in India, Geological survey of India government of India, October,(2006) @No $ @ @ Crósta A.P. and Filho C.R.D.S.,Hyperspectral Remote Sensing for Mineral Mapping: a case-study at Alto Paraíso De Goías, Central Brazil, Revista Brasileira de Geociências, 30(3):551-554 (2000) @No $ @ @ earthexplorer.usgs.gov (2014) @No $ @ @ www.exelisvis.com/docs/Other Radiometric CorrectionTools . html (2014) @No $ @ @ Environment for Visualizing Images (ENVI) 4.5 help file @No $ @ @ www.ltid.inpe.br/tutorial/tut10.htm(2014) @No $ @ @ www.exelisvis.com/docs/Spectral Resampling . html (2014) @No $ @ @ www.csr.utexas.edu/projects/rs/hrs/analysis.html (2014) @No <#LINE#>Prediction of Rock Mechanical Parameters as a Function of P-Wave Velocity<#LINE#>Abbas Abbaszadeh@Shahri,Arsham@Gheirati,Maria@Espersson<#LINE#>7-14<#LINE#>2. ISCA-IRJES-2014-016.pdf<#LINE#>Faculty of Civil Engineering, Islamic Azad University, Rudehen Branch, Rudehen, Tehran, IRAN @ Department of Geophysics, Islamic Azad University, Chalous branch, Chalous, IRAN @ Uppsala University, Box 534, Construction Engineering Department, SE-75121 Uppsala, SWEDEN<#LINE#>21/6/2014<#LINE#>24/9/2014<#LINE#>Due to non destructive and easy method of P-wave velocity (V) measurements in field and laboratory conditions, and also its relation to mechanical parameters of the material, it has increasingly been conducted to determine the physical properties of rock materials. In this paper an experimental study of the measurement of P-wave velocity, uniaxial compressive strength (UCS), Schmidt hammer test (N), porosity (n), saturated and dry density () and elasticity modulus (E) for two types of rocksincluding the sandstone and schist at a selected site in West of Iran in Hamedan province were performed. According to available reports of Geological Survey of Iran (GSI), in most of areas of Zagros fault zone including our selected area, particularly in Sanandaj – Sirjan zone, the majority of rock types are consisting of sandstones and metamorphed Jurassic rocks in green schist. Therefore, in the present paper, we aim to determine reliable empirical predictive models as a function of P-wave velocity to estimate the rocks properties for these two rock types. For this purpose, 30 samples consisting of 9 schist and 21 sandstones were tested in laboratory. By application of statistical analysis and student t-test the computed regression coefficient value evaluated and showed that these obtained empirical relations can be applied for the West of Iran. To verify and validate our results a detailed comparison between results of this study by other researchers were conducted by plotting graphs. The result of comparison shows good compatibility with each other. <#LINE#> @ @ @No <#LINE#>Geomorphological study of Sand Dunes with special reference to their Hydrogeology in Southern Coast of Odisha, India<#LINE#>Prabir Kumar@Naik,Rabindra Nath@Hota<#LINE#>15-21<#LINE#>3. ISCA-IRJES-2014-028.pdf<#LINE#><#LINE#>9/9/2014<#LINE#>3/10/2014<#LINE#>The southern coast of Odisha enjoys a humid tropical climate. Availability of favourable conditions for dune development i.e. abundant sand supply, strong onshore wind and flat ground adjacent to the coast has given rise to all the possible types of dunes like embryo dune, fore dune, frontal dune, intermediate dune, back dune and palaeo-dune etc. These dunes differ from each other in their geometry and place of accumulation of sand. They support different types of vegetation like casurina, cashew, coconut, date palm, kewra as well as act like a buffer zone in protecting the coastal part from destructive effects of wave, tide, cyclone and tsunami. The sand dunes also serve as storehouses of different placer minerals like monazite, zircon, ilmenite, rutile and sillimanite. Being made up of unconsolidated and well sorted sands, the dunes possess appreciably high porosity and permeability making them good receptacles for storage of fresh groundwater. The water is mostly alkaline, moderately hard, fresh and potable and is used for drinking and agricultural purposes by the people of the coastal saline environment. The electrical conductivities of ground water varies from 399 to 1313 µs/cm. When the ground water is fresh the facies is (Na+K) - HCO type but when it is brackish facies is (Na+K) - (Cl + NO) type. Unsystematic exploitation of the sand dunes has resulted in imbalance of the coastal ecosystem, which is to be restored for the welfare of the inhabitants. <#LINE#> @ @ Bagnold R., The Physics of Blown Sand and desert dunes, William Morrow and Co., New York, 265, (1954) @No $ @ @ McLachlan I. and Brown A. C., The Ecology of sandy shores, Academic Press, 373(2006) @No $ @ @ http://www.landforms.eu/Lothian/dune%20geomorphology.htm (2014) @No $ @ @ Goldsmith V., Coastal dunes. In: Davis, RA (ed), Coastal Sedimentary Environments. Springer Verlag, New York (1978) @No $ @ @ King CAM Beaches and Coasts, 2nd edition. London, Arnold, (1972) @No $ @ @ Hota RN, Geochemical analysis. CBS Publishers and Distributors, New Delhi, (2011) @No $ @ @ Tinley KL, Coastal dunes of South Africa, S.A. 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Box 861-020500, Narok, KENYA @ Department of Biochemistry, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, P.O Box 6200-00200 Nairobi, KENYA<#LINE#>15/9/2014<#LINE#>10/10/2014<#LINE#>The drive for targeting higher agricultural production needs a balanced use of nutrients which otherwise create problems of soil fertility exhaustion and nutrient imbalances. The current research sampled 15 farms from Ololulunga, Narok County to determine the levels of nitrate, phosphate and sulfate using UV-VIS and data analyzed using MSTAT-C, SPSS and student t-test. The nitrate concentration varied from 32.441mg/kg to 11.108mg/kg before planting and 36.759mg/kg to 21.646mg/kg after planting. The phosphate concentration varied from 3.001mg/kg to 0.368mg/kg before planting and 9.508 mg/kg to 2.357mg/kg after planting. The sulfates concentration varied from 6.678mg/kg to 3.661mg/kg before planting and 8.028 mg/kg to 4.111 mg/kg after planting. Generally, it was observed that almost all farms had different application rates of these nutrients and maybe this depended on the financial ability of individual farmer. It was found that nitrate had the least CV% of 6.71, sulfates, 8.54% and phosphates 40.88 % and the nutrients before and after planting were significant (p 0.05). <#LINE#> @ @ Ayoub A.S., McGaw B.A., A.J., Photoavalaibility of Cd and Zinc soil Estimated by Stableisotope Exchange and Chemical Extraction, and Soil,. 252(2), 291-300 (2003) @No $ @ @ Brady N.C., The Nature and Properties of Soils, Macmillan Publishing Company, New York. 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