Photogrammetric digital outcrop reconstruction, visualization with textured surfaces, and three-dimensional structural analysis and modeling: Innovative methodologies applied to fault-related dolomitization (Vajont Limestone, Southern Alps, Italy)

Geosphere

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 2031-2048

  Bistacchi, Andrea ^a   Balsamo, Fabrizio ^b   Storti, Fabrizio ^b   Mozafari, Mahtab ^c   Swennen, Rudy ^c   Solum, John ^d   Tueckmantel, Christian ^d   Taberner, Conxita ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^d SHELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL B V   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW OF FLUIDS; LIME; LIMESTONE; OPTICAL RADAR; PHOTOGRAMMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; SAMPLING; STRATIGRAPHY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

3D DIGITAL REPRESENTATIONS; ANALYSIS AND MODELING; GEOCHEMICAL PARAMETERS; INNOVATIVE METHODOLOGIES; LIDAR (LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING); REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY; STRUCTURAL MEASUREMENTS; THREEDIMENSIONAL (3-D);

THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

DOLOMITIZATION; FAULT; LIDAR; OUTCROP; PHOTOGRAMMETRY; RECONSTRUCTION; REMOTE SENSING; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; VISUALIZATION;

ALPS; ITALY;

EID: 84969779018     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1553040X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/GES01005.1     Document Type: Article

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