Landsat TM RGB Combinations:

Band 2 Highlights Surficial Disturbances, prospects, roads. Excavations bright, Desert

Varnish Dark.
Band 3 Iron Oxides are Bright. Vegetation Darker than Rock & Soil
Band 4 Vegetation extremely Bright
Band 5 Best Contrast among Dark and Light Coloured Rocks and other Surface Covers.
Best Band for Structural Analysis.
Band7 Low Values for Most Alteration Minerals and Vegetation. Bright Values for
Evolved Alkalic and per-alkaline Rocks.
3/1 Iron Oxides Enhanced. Contrasts Rock/Soil - bright, with Vegetation (Dark)
4/3 Enhances Vegetation (bright)
5/4 Enhances Rock/Soil (bright) ayer Vegetation (Dark)
5/7 Hydrothermal Alteration Bright, Evloved Alkalic rocks Dark
321 Colors like a photograph
731 LithologyContrast (Carbonates are blue)
357 Lithology Contrast in Semi Arid Areas
542 Contrast between Different Cover Types including Lithology and Vegetation
3/1 5/7 5/4 Iron Oxides red, hydrothermal green, Rock/Soil Blue, vegetation subdued
3/1 5/7 4/3 Iron Oxides Reddish, Hydrothermal Green, Vegetation Blue
5/4 7 3/1 Silicified gossan is white-blue, silicification alone is red, iron alone is blue
3/1 3 1 Iron = reds, orange and yellow
5/4 7 5/7 Silicified and clay is white-blue, silicification alone is red, clay
alone is blue
H HF F Crosta Image: Clay is red, iron is blue, clayand iron = white
752 Silic is Pistachio Blue, Iron is Green Brown, Carbonate is
Turquoise Blue. Only for Dry Areas.
5/7 5 7 Clay
3/1 3/2 4 Iron is red to red-green. Vegetation is blue.
5/4 5/7 4 Vegetation is subdued and blue, Clay is Green
5/4 3/1 4 Vegetatation is subdued and blue, Iron is green

PrincipIe Components (of all 7 Bands):

Band 1 Best Overall Scene Contrast. Good For Structure, Similar to Raw Band 5
Band 2 Best Contrast Arnong Lithologies, Vegetation Subdued in Arid Terrain
Band 3 Highlights Vegetation (Bright) in semi-arid Terrain. Similar to Raw TM 4/3
Band 5 May highlight Hydrothermal (Bright)
245 Emphases Rock, Soils and Hydrothermal, Subdues Vegetation
731 Lithology Contrast (Carbonates are blue) Lithology Contrast in Semi Arid Areas
Contrast between Different Cover types ineluding Lithology and Vegetation
3/1 5/7 5/4 Iron Oxides red, hydrothermal green, Roek/Soil Blue, vegetation subdued
3/1 5/7 4/3 Iron Oxides Reddish, Hydrothermal Green, Vegetation Blue
5/4 7 3/1 Silieified gossan is white-blue, silicifieation alone is red, iron alone is blue
3/1 3 1 Iron = reds, orange and yellow
5/4 7 5/7 Silieified and elay is white-blue, silieification alone is red, elay alone is blue
H HF F Crosta Image: Clay is red, iron is blue, clay and iron = white
752 Sitie is Pistaehio Blue, Iron is Green Brown, Carbonate is Turquoise Blue. Only for
Dry Areas.
5/7 5 7 Clay
3/1 3/2 4 Iron is red to red-green. Vegetation is blue.
5/45/74 Vegetation is subdued and blue, Clay is Green
5/4 3/1 4 Vegetatation is subdued alld blue, Iron lS green PrincipIe Components (of all 7
Bands):
Band 1 Best Overall Scene Contrast. Good F or Structure, Similar to Raw Band 5
Band 2 Best Contrast Among Lithologies, Vegetation Subdued in Arid Terrain
Band 3 Highlights Vegetation (Bright) in semiarid Terrain. Similar to Raw TM 4/3
Band 5 May highlight Hydrothermal (Bright) Emphases Rock, 245 Soils and ydrothermal,
Subdues Vegetation