Laser scanning and digital outcrop geology in the petroleum industry: A review

D Hodgetts - Marine and Petroleum Geology, 2013 - Elsevier
The use of lidar (Light Detection and Ranging) systems for modelling petroleum reservoir
analogues has become increasingly popular over the past few years, and there has been a …

Virtual and digital outcrops in the petroleum industry: A systematic review

A Marques Jr, RK Horota, EM De Souza… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
The study of outcrop analogues of petroleum reservoirs is well established in the petroleum
industry through the use of digital outcrop models (DOMs). These models, which are also …

Development and application of UAV-SfM photogrammetry for quantitative characterization of rock mass discontinuities

D Kong, C Saroglou, F Wu, P Sha, B Li - International Journal of Rock …, 2021 - Elsevier
Remote sensing techniques (eg, terrestrial laser scanning and digital photogrammetry) have
been developed and applied rapidly in recent years for identification and analysis of rock …

Towards semi-automatic discontinuity characterization in rock tunnel faces using 3D point clouds

J Chen, H Huang, M Zhou, K Chaiyasarn - Engineering Geology, 2021 - Elsevier
Searching for an efficient and reliable method to reduce manual intervention and subjective
parameter selection during the discontinuity characterization process of rock tunnel faces is …

Terrestrial lidar and hyperspectral data fusion products for geological outcrop analysis

SJ Buckley, TH Kurz, JA Howell, D Schneider - Computers & Geosciences, 2013 - Elsevier
Close-range hyperspectral imaging is an emerging technique for remotely map** mineral
content and distributions in inaccessible geological outcrop surfaces, allowing subtle …

The Carnian pluvial event in Western Europe: new data from Iberia and correlation with the Western Neotethys and eastern North America–NW Africa regions

A Arche, J Lopez-Gomez - Earth-Science Reviews, 2014 - Elsevier
At the beginning of the Late Triassic, a period of increased precipitation occurred over large
tracts of Central Pangea, the “Carnian Pluvial Event”. It was a short-lived event (> 1 Ma) …

Supervised identification and reconstruction of near-planar geological surfaces from terrestrial laser scanning

D García-Sellés, O Falivene, P Arbués… - Computers & …, 2011 - Elsevier
Terrestrial laser scanning is an effective method for digitally capturing outcrops, enabling
them to be visualized, analyzed, and revisited in an office environment without the limitations …

Stratigraphic architecture of a large-scale point-bar complex in the McMurray Formation: Syncrude's Mildred Lake Mine, Alberta, Canada

TR Nardin, HR Feldman, BJ Carter - 2013 - archives.datapages.com
Canada's largest bitumen resource is contained within the McMurray Formation, a complex
deepening-upward fluvial-estuarine succession typified by abrupt facies changes, inclined …

Integration of digital outcrop models (DOMs) and high resolution sedimentology–workflow and implications for geological modelling: Oukaimeden Sandstone …

I Fabuel-Perez, D Hodgetts, J Redfern - Petroleum Geoscience, 2010 - earthdoc.org
Outcrop analogue studies provide key information for reservoir modelling which is difficult to
obtain from traditional subsurface datasets (ie seismic data, well data). Terrestrial laser …

A new method to automatically identify and characterize rock mass discontinuities using a smartphone: Experiences from a slope and a tunnel

X Peng, P Lin, B Huang, Y He, M Wang - Tunnelling and Underground …, 2024 - Elsevier
Smartphones equipped with high-resolution lenses and advanced photo processing
capabilities have evolved into versatile, multifunctional devices. This paper introduces a …