Image Analysis of Remotely Sensed Data for Discriminating Fertile Granites in Egypt

Abstract

In the recent years, the younger granites in Egypt attracted a great of interest, due to their association with uranium anomalous and its economically important. Nuclear Materials Authority (NMA) considered the granitic rocks as one of the most important sources of uranium deposits so it conducted exploration programs to search for uranium mineralizations in Egyptian Deserts. These programs led to the discovery of radioactive anomalies and uranium mineralizations in the Northern, Central and Southern Eastern Desert of Egypt, besides Sinai.