Three-dimensional implicit stratigraphic model building from remote sensing data on tetrahedral meshes: Theory and application to a regional model of la Popa Basin, NE Mexico

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1613-1621

  Caumon, Guillaume ^a   Gray, Gary ^b   Antoine, Christophe ^a   Titeux, Marc Olivier ^c  

^a CRPG CNRS   (France)

^b EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

^c IFPEnergies Nouvelles   (France)

Author keywords

Applications; cartography; computer aided design; earth and atmospheric sciences; graphical user interface; interpolation; model development; optimization

Indexed keywords

3D MODELS; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; EARTH AND ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE; GEOLOGICAL STRUCTURES; GEOMORPHOLOGIC FEATURES; INCISED VALLEY; INTERACTIVE EDITING; ME-XICO; MODEL DEVELOPMENT; REGIONAL MODEL; REMOTE SENSING DATA; REMOTE SENSING IMAGES; SUBSURFACE DATA; TETRAHEDRAL MESHES; USER INTERACTION;

APPLICATIONS; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; GEOMORPHOLOGY; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERPOLATION; MAPPING; MAPS; MODEL BUILDINGS; OPTIMIZATION; REMOTE SENSING; STRATIGRAPHY;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

CARTOGRAPHY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; CROSS SECTION; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; FAULT; GEOLOGICAL STRUCTURE; GEOMETRY; INTERFACE; INTERPOLATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; STRATIGRAPHY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

LA POPA BASIN; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA];

EID: 84874654479     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2012.2207727     Document Type: Article

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