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    • CIRES Approach Overview to Using Thermal Infrared Imagery to Find Geothermal Systems in Colorado

    Metadata Updated: January 20, 2025

    Subsurface geothermal activity has a thermal expression that can be observed at the surface. Such spatial temperature gradients are within the radiometric resolution that is characteristic of a wide range of satellites that carry thermal sensors. For this effort, CIRES (part of the University of Colorado) used a hierarchical approach in which we examined data from Thematic Mapper (TM) and Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) onboard Landsat platforms and Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) aboard the Terra satellite to digitally model warm surface exposures. Geological characteristics such as faulting and other available datasets for known thermally active areas in Colorado were used in conjunction with the satellite thermal imagery to rank potential areas of geothermal activity.

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    Metadata Created Date January 11, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date January 20, 2025

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    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date January 11, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date January 20, 2025
    Publisher Flint Geothermal, LLC
    Maintainer
    Identifier https://data.openei.org/submissions/6670
    Data First Published 2012-02-01T07:00:00Z
    Data Last Modified 2017-06-05T14:43:24Z
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 019:20
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    License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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    Program Code 019:006
    Projectlead Mark Ziegenbein
    Projectnumber EE0002828
    Projecttitle Recovery Act: Use Remote Sensing Data (selected visible and infrared spectrums) to locate high temp ground anomalies in Colorado.Confirm heat flow potential w/ on-site temp surveys to drill deep resource wells
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