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In geological remote sensing, mineral mapping is an appealing application of hyperspectral remote sensing for geological surveyors. Whether deep learning can improve the mineral identification ability in hyperspectral remote sensing images, especially for the discrimination of spectrally similar and intimately mixed minerals, needs to be evaluated. In this study, shortwave airborne spectrographic imager (SASI) hyperspectral images of the Baiyanghe uranium deposit in Northwestern Xinjiang, China, were used as experimental data. Three deep neural network (DNN) models were designed: a fully connected neural network (FCNN), a one-dimensional convolutional neural network (1D CNN), and a one-dimensional and two-dimensional convolutional neural network (1D and 2D CNN). A sample dataset containing five minerals was constructed for model training and validation, which was divided into training, validation and test sets at a ratio of 6:2:2. The final test accuracies of the FCNN, 1D CNN, and 1D and 2D CNN were 91.24%, 93.67% and 94.77%, respectively. The three DNNs were used for mineral identification and mapping of SASI hyperspectral images of the Baiyanghe uranium mining area. The mapping results were compared with the mapping results of the support vector machine (SVM) and the mixture-tuned matched filtering (MTMF) method. Combined with the ground spectral data obtained by the spectrometer, spectral verification and interpretation were carried out on sections that the two kinds of methods identified differently. The verification results show that the mapping results of the 1D and 2D CNN were more accurate than those of the other methods. More importantly, for minerals with similar spectral characteristics, such as short-wavelength white mica and medium-wavelength white mica, the 1D and 2D CNN model had a more accurate discrimination effect than the other DNN models, indicating that the introduction of spatial information can improve the mineral identification ability in hyperspectral remote sensing images. In general, CNNs have good application prospects in geological mapping of hyperspectral remote sensing images and are worthy of further development in future work.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs14205122","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,10,14]],"date-time":"2022-10-14T01:44:13Z","timestamp":1665711853000},"page":"5122","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":39,"title":["Application and Evaluation of Deep Neural Networks for Airborne Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Mineral Mapping: A Case Study of the Baiyanghe Uranium Deposit in Northwestern Xinjiang, China"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7031-1328","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Chuan","family":"Zhang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Remote Sensing Information and Image Analysis, Beijing Research Institute of Uranium Geology, Beijing 100029, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4095-7507","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Min","family":"Yi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Remote Sensing Information and Image Analysis, Beijing Research Institute of Uranium Geology, Beijing 100029, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Fawang","family":"Ye","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Remote Sensing Information and Image Analysis, Beijing Research Institute of Uranium Geology, Beijing 100029, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Qingjun","family":"Xu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Remote Sensing Information and Image Analysis, Beijing Research Institute of Uranium Geology, Beijing 100029, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Xinchun","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Remote Sensing Information and Image Analysis, Beijing Research Institute of Uranium Geology, Beijing 100029, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Qingqing","family":"Gan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Remote Sensing Information and Image Analysis, Beijing Research Institute of Uranium Geology, Beijing 100029, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,10,13]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"096005","DOI":"10.1117\/1.JRS.9.096005","article-title":"Integrated visible and near-infrared, shortwave infrared, and longwave infrared full range hyperspectral data analysis for geologic mapping","volume":"9","author":"Kruse","year":"2015","journal-title":"J. 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