SUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION OF TM BAND RATIO IMAGES AND RADAR FOR GEOLOGICAL INTERPERATIONS OF CENTRAL MADAGASCAR

Madagascar is the worlds forth largest island, it is recognized as being physically, biologically, and culturally unique and distinctive. Its uniqueness is the result of many mutually interacting determents among which its global setting and its geologic context are arguably the most fundamental. This paper is concerned with using supervised classisifiction of a variety of blended and fused remote sensing data sets to establish discriminations of selected geological components of central Madagascar. These designations could ultimately underlay an understanding of not only further geologic significance possibly addressing super continet dynamics but also contemporary human cultural conditions and their geologic harbingers.