Funded by Ministry of Land and Resources of China, China Geological Survey and National High Technology Research and
Development Program of China (National 863 Program), the Hyperspectral Research Group of China Aero Geophysical Survey and Remote
Sensing Center for Land and Resources (AGRS) has made remarkable scientific achievements in hyperspectral mineral identification
and mineral mapping since the implementation of the ‘Ninth Five-Year Plan’. These achievements include: (1) the analysis of
features of rock and mineral spectra and influencing factors, (2) mineral identification, abundance estimation and component
derivation, (3) multispectral and hyperspectral data processing and mineral mapping in mid-thermal infrared spectral region, (4)
geological application model, working methods and technical processes, and technology systematic architecture of hyperspectral
mineral mapping, and (5) applications of mineral mapping in such fields as regional mineral survey, geological exploration,
metallogenic and prospecting modeling, plant geochemical detection, mining environmental monitoring, and lunar and planetary
exploration. These achievements are reviewed and summarized in this paper, and the development tendency and research orientations
in hyperspectral mineral mapping are also discussed.