Terrestrial laser scanning for use in virtual outcrop geology

Photogrammetric Record

Volumn 25, Issue 131, 2010, Pages 225-239

  Buckley, Simon J ^a   Enge, Håvard D ^a,b   Carlsson, Christian ^a,c   Howell, John A ^a  

^a Centre for Integrated Petroleum Research   (Norway)

^b STATOIL   (Norway)

^c SCHLUMBERGER   (United States)

Author keywords

Digital terrain model; Geology; Lidar; Photo realistic models; Subsurface reservoir modelling; Visualisation

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL TERRAIN MODEL; LIDAR; PHOTO-REALISTIC; SUBSURFACE RESERVOIR; VISUALISATION;

GEOLOGY; HYDROCARBONS; LANDFORMS; LASER APPLICATIONS; OPTICAL RADAR; SCANNING; STEEL BEAMS AND GIRDERS; VISUALIZATION;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

DATA INTERPRETATION; DIGITAL TERRAIN MODEL; FLOW MODELING; FLUID FLOW; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; LASER METHOD; LIDAR; OUTCROP; PHOTOGRAMMETRY; SOFTWARE; TRIANGULATION; VIRTUAL REALITY; VISUALIZATION;

UNITED STATES; UTAH;

EID: 77956623137     PISSN: 0031868X     EISSN: 14779730     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1477-9730.2010.00585.x     Document Type: Article

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