Building a virtual outcrop, extracting geological information from it, and sharing the results in Google Earth via OpenPlot and Photoscan: An example from the Khaviz Anticline (Iran)

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 63, Issue , 2014, Pages 44-53

  Tavani, S ^a   Granado, P ^b   Corradetti, A ^a   Girundo, M ^a   Iannace, A ^a   Arbues P ^b   Munoz J A ^b   Mazzoli, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

3D graphic; Google Earth; Structural geology; Virtual outcrop

Indexed keywords

3-D DIGITAL MODELING; 3D GRAPHICS; GEOLOGICAL INFORMATION; GEOLOGICAL SURFACE; GOOGLE EARTHS; SKILL REQUIREMENTS; VIRTUAL OUTCROP MODELS; VIRTUAL OUTCROPS;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; PHOTOGRAMMETRY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

DIGITAL PHOTOGRAMMETRY; OUTCROP; SOFTWARE; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; WORLD WIDE WEB;

IRAN;

EID: 84888114267     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2013.10.013     Document Type: Article

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