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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 
The authors also would like to express their sincere gratitude to 
ESA for providing the Proba CHRIS image, Dr. Mike Cutter 
(SSTL, UK) for his support on the Proba CHRIS image pre 
processing, to Prof. Dr. Cankut Ormeci (ITU, Turkey) for being 
kind to offer his office for the laboratory spectroscopy study. 
The authors would also like to thank Assoc. Prof. Nurettin 
Kaymak?i (METU, Turkey) for providing the up to date 
geological map of the study area, Dr. Miifit £etin (GYTE, 
Turkey) for sharing his field spectroscopy experience and the 
Municipality of (Rankin and Eldivan for supporting the field 
study and duration in Eldivan, Rankin, Turkey.