SATELLITE MINERAL & GAS EXPLORATION
Find priority targets from space, before you spend on fieldwork.
Aster Funds turns satellite hyperspectral and spectral data into ranked exploration targets for metals, industrial minerals and natural hydrogen — quickly, and at a fraction of the cost of ground surveys.
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Protium Clean Energy
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Argyle Resources
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Copper Lake Resources
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Tartisan Nickel
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Kalahari Key
- J3M Gold
- McLaren Resources
- Earth Resources Inc.
What we do
One satellite workflow, from first look to post-production monitoring
Mineral exploration targeting
Map minerals across your whole property, then rank targets using fingerprints trained on your known showings. Works for any commodity.
- LWIR & SWIR mineral mapping
- Predictive fingerprint targeting
- Claim acquisition & assessment filings
Natural hydrogen & gas
Map hydrogen, helium, methane and CO₂ anomalies at district scale to focus land acquisition and follow-up.
- Regional gas surveys
- Deep and near-surface hydrogen solutions
- Trusted by hydrogen explorers in Ontario & BC
Mine & environmental monitoring
Watch tailings, emissions and land disturbance from orbit, with weekly change detection and early warnings.
- SAR tailings stability monitoring
- Methane & carbon emissions tracking
- Discovery checks for investors
- Oil & gas pipeline monitoring
How it works
From claim boundary to field-ready targets in four steps
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Send your boundary
A KML, shapefile or coordinates, plus the commodity and any known showings.
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We process the imagery
We use cloud-free scenes (under 30% cloud cover), mask out water bodies, and unmix each scene into 16 endmember minerals.
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We rank the targets
Fingerprints trained on known mineralization score every pixel of your ground.
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You go to the field
Maps, a report and a walkthrough with a professional geologist.
Results
Targets confirmed in the field
Two new quartz–gold veins found beside an operating mine after a 7,000 km² fingerprint survey.
Remote targets in forested terrain confirmed by a 125 m trench of continuous graphite.
From 42 public drill holes, we outlined the buried Winu system and flagged a deposit announced months later.
We were so impressed with the technology that we extended the program to assist us in identifying additional targets for Hydrogen in Ontario, Quebec, BC, and Alberta.
We are pleased that the Aster Funds Ltd. satellite survey gives us the confidence that there are other potentially larger target areas on the Marshall Lake Project to explore for copper-zinc mineralization.
The survey picked out the Kenbridge Deposit, and has shown the possible extension to the Kenbridge Deposit and three additional trends…
Natural hydrogen
Our deep-hydrogen survey lit up Oyu Tolgoi in imagery taken years before its discovery.
The strongest anomaly in pre-discovery 2000 data sits directly over the Hugo Dummett orebody. See how hydrogen mapping can focus your land package.
Read the hydrogen case studySend us your claim boundary.
Tell us where you are and what you are looking for. A geologist will reply with a scope and quote.