3D Digital Geological Models (eBook)

Andrea Bistacchi is a Professor at the Università degli Studi di Milano - Bicocca, Milano, Italy. Matteo Massironi is a Professor at the Univeristà degli Studi di Padova, Padova, Italy. Sophie Viseur is a Research Engineer at the Centre Européen de Recherche et d'Enseignement des Géosciences de l'Environnement (CEREGE), Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille, France.

List of Contributors



Preface





1. Introduction: 3D Digital Geological Models: From Terrestrial Outcrops to Planetary Surfaces

Andrea Bistacchi, Matteo Massironi and Sophie Viseur



Part I: DOM and SM reconstruction and interpretation workflows



2. Digital Outcrop Model reconstruction and interpretation

Andrea Bistacchi, Silvia Mittempergher and Mattia Martinelli



3. The PRoViDE Framework: Accurate 3D geological models for virtual exploration of the Martian surface from rover and orbital imagery.

Christoph Traxler, T. Ortner, G. Hesina, R. Barnes, S. Gupta, G. Paar, J.-P. Muller,

Y. Tao and K. Willner



4. Vombat: an open source tool for creating stratigraphic logs from Virtual Outcrops

L. Penasa, M. Franceschi and N. Preto



5. Interpretation and mapping of geological features using mobile devices in outcrop geology - A case study of the Saltwick Formation, North Yorkshire, UK

Christian Kehl, James R. Mullins, Simon J. Buckley, John A. Howell and Robert L. Gawthorpe



6. Image analysis algorithms for semi-automatic lineament detection in geological outcrops

Silvia Mittempergher and Andrea Bistacchi



Part II: Morphometric analysis across different scales and planets



7. Mapping coastal erosion of a Mediterranean cliff with a boat-borne laser scanner: performance, processing and cliff erosion rate

Jérémy Giuliano, Thomas J. B. Dewez, Thomas Lebourg, Vincent Godard, Mélody Prémaillon, Nathalie Marçot



8. A DTM-based volume extraction approach: from micro-scale weathering forms to planetary lava tubes

Pozzobon, Riccardo; Mazzoli, Claudio; Salvini, Silvia; Sauro, Francesco; Massironi, Matteo; Santagata, Tommaso



9. Robust detection of circular shapes on 3D meshes based on discrete curvatures - Application to impact craters recognition

Jean-Luc Mari, Sophie Viseur, Sylvain Bouley, Martin-Pierre Schmidt, Jennifer

Muscato, Florian Beguet, Sarah Bali, Laurent Jorda



Part III: 3D modelling of the subsurface from surface data



10. Remote sensing and field data based structural 3D modelling (Haslital, Switzerland) in combination with uncertainty estimation and verification by underground data

Roland Baumberger, Marco Herwegh and Edi Kissling



11. Application of implicit 3D modeling to reconstruct the layered structure of the comet 67P

L. Penasa, M. Massironi, E. Simioni, M. Franceschi, G. Naletto, S. Ferrari, F.

Preusker, F. Scholten, L. Jorda, R. Gaskell, H. Sierks and the OSIRIS team




Index