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mineral abundances derived from reflectance spectra and single-scattering albedo is
20.05 % and 5.03 %, respectively (Bokun et al. 2008 ). Since the significant variation
between the linear spectral unmixing and single-scattering albedo, SSA should be
employed for getting more accuracy in quantitative mapping. Once corrections are
done, the Modified Gaussian Model (MGM) could perform to derive the modal
percentage of the subset of Mg-Fe and Ca pyroxenes and olivine, which will obtain
the better results.
Acknowledgement The author acknowledges PLANEX, Physical Research Laboratory (ISRO),
Ahmedabad, and Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi, for Postdoc-
toral Research Fellowship. Moreover, the author thanks the anonymous reviewer's critical review
which helps to improve the paper.
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