Mineralogical Magazine; April 2004; v. 68; no. 2;
p. 323-333; DOI: 10.1180/0026461046820189
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FIG. 11. Optical smearing at the interface between pyrite and sphalerite (cf. zoomed circle) is responsible for the appearance of virtual chalcopyrite (Cp) and pyrrhotite (Po) rims after image classification. This effect due to mixed pixels spectra (mixels) can be removed in practice through posterior filtering.
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