Fault-based geological lineaments extraction using remote sensing and GIS—a review

H Ahmadi, E Pekkan - Geosciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Geological lineaments are the earth's linear features indicating significant tectonic units in
the crust associated with the formation of minerals, active faults, groundwater controls …

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 …

Drainage morphometry and groundwater potential mapping: application of geoinformatics with frequency ratio and influencing factor approaches

A Doke, SD Pardeshi, S Das - Environmental earth sciences, 2020 - Springer
Morphometric analyses have the ability to provide substantial evidences of drainage
evolution, hydro-geomorphic, denudation, and tectonic characteristics that are essential for …

Automatic extraction of lineaments based on wavelet edge detection and aided tracking by hillshade

J Xu, X Wen, H Zhang, D Luo, J Li, L Xu… - Advances in Space …, 2020 - Elsevier
Lineaments refer to the linear or curvilinear textures on remote sensing image, whose
general spatial distribution characteristics are often the response of deep geological …

Understanding the mechanisms of earth fissuring for hazard mitigation in Najran, Saudi Arabia

M Alsaiari, BO Nwafor, M Hermana, AM Hassan HM… - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
Being a fast-growing city with a high rate of urbanization and agricultural development, the
city of Najran, situated in the southwest of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, has witnessed a …

Hydrochemical and Isotopic Investigation of the Groundwater from Wajid Aquifer in Wadi Al-Dawasir, Southern Saudi Arabia

M Benaafi, A Al-Shaibani - Water, 2021 - mdpi.com
The Wajid aquifer is considered the main source of water for drinking and irrigation in Wadi
Al-Dawasir and Najran, the southern region of Saudi Arabia. This aquifer has been used …

Integrated geomechanical, petrographical and petrophysical study of the sandstones of the Wajid Group, SW Saudi Arabia

M Benaafi, M Hariri, A Al-Shaibani, O Abdullatif… - Journal of African Earth …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract The Cambro-Permian siliciclastic succession in southwestern Saudi Arabia is
represented by the Wajid Group, which consists mainly of fluvial, shallow marine, aeolian …

Natural fracture system of the Cambro-Permian Wajid Group, Wadi Al-Dawasir, SW Saudi Arabia

M Benaafi, M Hariri, G Bertotti, A Al-Shaibani… - Journal of Petroleum …, 2019 - Elsevier
This study investigates the regional and outcrop-scale fracture system within the Wajid
Group exposures in Wadi Al-Dawasir, southwest Saudi Arabia. The Wajid Group is a …

Statistical and Geostatistical Analyses

O Abdullatif, M Makkawi, M Yassin - Geological and Geostatistical Aquifer …, 2022 - Springer
This chapter presents the results of the statistical and geostatistical analysis and models and
kriging estimations of the Wajid outcrops. The porosity distribution almost follows Gaussian …

Comparison of optical satellite images in different spectral ranges for automatic lineaments extraction

J Xu, X Wen, D Luo, P He - Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 2022 - Springer
In this study, the potentialities of optical images in different spectral ranges for automatic
lineament extraction were compared by Landsat-8 OLI, Sentinel-2, and GF-1. First, the …