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    A Fully-Automated Framework for Mineral Identification on Martian Surface Using Supervised Learning Models
    (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2023) Kumari, P.; Soor, S.; Shetty, A.; Koolagudi, S.G.
    The availability of various spectral libraries for CRISM (Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars) data on NASA PDS (Planetary Data System) hugely facilitated the research on the surface mineralogy of Mars, however, building supervised learning models for mineral mapping appears to be challenging due to the lack of ground-truth/training data. In this paper, an automated framework is presented that classifies the spectra in a CRISM hyperspectral image using supervised learning models, where the required training data is produced by augmenting the mineral spectra available in the MICA (Minerals Identified in CRISM Analysis) spectral library, that keeps the key absorption signatures in the mineral spectra intact while providing adequate variability. The framework contains a pre-processing pipeline that in addition to some conventional pre-processing steps includes a new feature extraction method to capture the information of the most distinguishable absorption patterns in the spectra. The proposed framework is validated on a set of CRISM images captured from different locations on the Martian surface by using different types of supervised learning models, like random forests, support vector machines, and neural networks. An uncertainty analysis of the different steps involved in the pre-processing pipeline is provided, as well as a comparison of performances with some of the previously used methods for this purpose, which shows this framework works comparably well with a mean accuracy of around 0.8. Interactive mineral maps are also provided for the detected dominant minerals. © 2013 IEEE.
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    MICAnet: A Deep Convolutional Neural Network for mineral identification on Martian surface
    (Elsevier B.V., 2024) Kumari, P.; Soor, S.; Shetty, A.; Koolagudi, S.G.
    Mineral identification plays a vital role in understanding the diversity and past habitability of the Martian surface. Mineral mapping by the traditional manual method is time-consuming and the unavailability of ground truth data limited the research on building supervised learning models. To address this issue an augmentation process is already proposed in the literature that generates training data replicating the spectra in the MICA (Minerals Identified in CRISM Analysis) spectral library while preserving absorption signatures and introducing variability. This study introduces MICAnet, a specialized Deep Convolutional Neural Network (DCNN) architecture for mineral identification using the CRISM (Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars) hyperspectral data. MICAnet is inspired by the Inception-v3 and InceptionResNet-v1 architectures, but it is tailored with 1-dimensional convolutions for processing the spectra at the pixel level of a hyperspectral image. To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is the first DCNN architecture solely dedicated to mineral identification on the Martian surface. The model is evaluated by its matching with a TRDR (Targeted Reduced Data Record) dataset obtained using a hierarchical Bayesian model. The results demonstrate an impressive f-score of at least .77 among different mineral groups in the MICA library, which is on par with or better than the unsupervised models previously applied to this objective. © 2024