As a new multi-sensor satellite, GaoFen-5 (GF-5) has gradually attracted more attention. Especially, the GF-5 hyperspectral sensor has shown good prospects in geological applications, such as mineral mapping, geological body identification, and mining environment analysis. Therefore, there is an urgent need to evaluate the effectiveness of GF-5 hyperspectral data relative to airborne hyperspectral images (HSI) in geological applications. In this paper, the characteristics and preprocessing steps of GF-5 HSI were introduced. The HyMap data in the Subei area was employed for comparative experiments to evaluate the application performance of GF-5 in gossan identification. The experimental results show that the diagnostic spectral characteristics of limonite can be observed through GF-5 data. The distribution trends of limonite in both hyperspectral data are consistent, and the concentration of the limonite area directly indicated the gossan information, indicating that GF-5 HSI has promising potential for mineral mapping and may have important significance in large-scale geological applications.
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