Instruments carried along on missions to, e.g., Mars, the Moon, Venus, and various Outer-Solar System objects, produce a rich variety of image data recorded in different wavelengths and some of them allow to derive additional datasets (e.g., digital terrain models). These data form the basis for geologically exploring the evolution of planetary bodies by analyzing and geoscientifically interpre...

The Bonaparte project is a multi-year bedrock mapping program initiated by the British Columbia Geological Survey during the 2000 field season. The project is focused on Mesozoic arc volcanic and plutonic rocks of the Quesnel Terrane in the northeastern part of the Bonaparte Lake (92P) map sheet (Figure 1). This area encompasses a northwest-trending belt of high mineral potential that includes ...

Variation in the mineral composition of rocks results in a change of their spectral response capable of being studied by imaging spectroscopy. This paper proposes the use of a low-cost handy sensor, a calibrated visible-very near infrared (VIS-VNIR) multispectral camera for the recognition of different geological formations. The spectral data was recorded by a Tetracam Mini-MCA-6 camera mounted...

cations the text of the explanatory notes that accompany a set of two maps co-published in 1999 by the Commission for the Geological Map of the World and ANDRA entitled: Maps of the World Environment during the last two Climatic Extremes (1. The Last Glacial Maximum — ca 18,000 ± 2,000 yrs B.P., 2. The Holocene Optimum — ca 8,000 ± 1,000 yrs B.P.). A reduced version of these two maps, originall...

Introduction: Two thirds of the surface of Ganymede is covered by grooved terrain, suggesting an active history of extensional tectonics. One important piece of Ganymede geological history is to determine the order in which groove-forming events happened. Separating grooves into a time sequence will help to constrain the geological events that formed the grooves. Previous investigations into th...

The seismic microzonation evaluate the seismic hazard at the local scale proposing to identify areas of territory characterized by homogeneous seismic behaviors. The first level of seismic microzoning has the purpose of defining the lithological properties and geometry of geological units that characterize these portions of territory (microzones). The scope of this work is to contribute to the ...

The National Map is the U.S. Geological Survey’s (USGS) next-generation topographic mapping product. This concept aims to achieve a more effective and regenerative public mapping program through local participation, inter-agency data sharing, and integration. This ambitious endeavor faces many significant challenges to its implementation, however. The Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) wa...

Landslide susceptibility map is one of the study fields portraying the spatial distribution of future slope failure susceptibility. This paper deals with past methods for producing landslide susceptibility map and divides these methods into 3 types. The logistic linear regression approach is further elaborated on by crosstabs method, which is used to analyze the relationship between the categor...