Fuzzy logic : Identifying areas for mineral development (original) (raw)

This article looks at the application of fuzzy logic set theory in GIS to identify potential areas for mineral development. Arc-SDM (Spatial Data Modeller) was used to assign fuzzy membership values to the selected criteria and calculate a combined output surface indicating the potential of areas for gold mineral development based on fuzzy set membership. Arc-SDM is a software extension for ArcMap that provides additional geo-processing and modeling functionality, including fuzzy logic tools for geological and mineral applications1.