This district in Nevada is the reference site of imaging spectroscopy. Decades of airborne campaigns, field spectrometry and published maps make it the one place on Earth where a mineral map from orbit can be checked against ground truth line by line. That is why we run ours here.
The method
A full scene came in at the archive's own surface reflectance level. Where the instrument measured nothing, the gap was declared and carried through rather than interpolated across.
Every pixel's curve was then continuum-removed and fitted against a library of laboratory reference spectra, so a material is identified by the shape and position of its absorption rather than by a colour rule. The same scene was also processed end to end by USGS Tetracorder 5.27 in a sealed container, giving an independent expert-system result to read alongside ours.
Ground that could not be evaluated stayed out. Vegetation, low signal and atmospheric interference put a pixel into a separate not-evaluated class, hatched in the legend and null in the exports.
The results
The materials panel lists what the run found: alunite, kaolinite group clays, hematite and the rest, each with the fraction of the scene it explains and the strength of its fit. The map paints the dominant material per pixel, and clicking any pixel shows the observed curve against the reference it matched.
Read side by side, the two engines agree on the zonation that matters to an exploration team: the advanced argillic core, the argillic ground around it, and the phyllic halo further out. Where they disagree, both answers are on screen with their fit quality attached, which is the point of running them together.
The mineral lane runs under Professional and Enterprise plans. This site is part of the demo workspace, so you can open it and inspect the pixels yourself.