Quantitative structural analysis using remote sensing data: Kurdistan, northeast Iraq

AAPG Bulletin

Volumn 95, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 941-956

  Reif, Daniel ^a   Grasemann, Bernhard ^a   Faber, Robert H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b TerraMath   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOLOGIC MODELS; MAPPING; SOFTWARE TESTING; STRATIGRAPHY; SURVEYING; TOPOGRAPHY;

DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; FAVORABLE CONDITIONS; GEOLOGIC CROSS SECTIONS; GEOLOGIC STRUCTURES; REMOTE SENSING DATA; SPATIAL ORIENTATIONS; STATISTICAL COMPARISONS; ZAGROS FOLD-AND-THRUST BELTS;

REMOTE SENSING;

DATA SET; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; DIP; ERROR ANALYSIS; FIELD METHOD; FIELDWORK; GEOLOGICAL MAPPING; PLANAR BEDDING STRUCTURE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOFTWARE; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; THRUST;

IRAQ; KURDISTAN [IRAQ];

EID: 79959953773     PISSN: 01491423     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1306/11151010112     Document Type: Article

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