文档介绍：JAG l Volume 1 - Issue 2 - 1999
Multi-coverage geological interpretation of satellite
images: a case study from selected areas of Poland
Pawel ,2 & Wojciech Ozimkowskil
l Institute of Geology, Warsaw University, Al. Zwirki i Wigury 93, 02-089 Warsaw, Poland.
2 Polish Oil and pany, Geological Bureau Geonafta, ul. Jagiellobska 76, 03-301 Warsaw, Poland
KEYWORDS: satellite images, lineaments, geology, visible from space - and almost as many lines described
Poland. as “Photo lineament (fault?) not shown on geological
map”- similar maps were prepared for every continent,
including Antarctica (Hoppe & Tessensohn, 1981). All
ABSTRACT these investigations proved some connections between
lineaments and disjunctive tectonics. Usually a minority
This paper presents the multi-coverage geological interpretation of
satellite imagery of areas in southern Poland, where different of traced lineaments were correlated with the geologi-
ic, petrologic and morphologic units occur. These areas are cally mapped faults, but most of them were unrelated.
also discussed in detail in the geological literature and have been Conversely, only part of the mapped faults were recog-
thoroughly mapped. The variance between individual geological nised as lineaments on satellite images.
interpretations of satellite imagery makes analysis of such large
areas very subjective. It is often difficult to recognise the relation-
The first geological interpretations of Landsat images
ships between real elements of geological data and lineaments
from Poland were made 3 years after the satellite was
interpreted from satellite images.
launched (Baiynski & Sokolowski, 1976; Ostaficzuk &
Present usage of satellite imagery by geologists is limited. Pszczofkowski, 1978). Since then, numerous papers
Geological interpretations of small-scale satellite imagery are scarce
based on Landsat imagery of Poland have been pub-
and this subject is a