ROW: Analysis of Alluvial Architecture and Paleosols Using Remote Sensing

利用RROW分析冲积层结构和古土壤 遥感 沉积盆地发育史最好 使用多学科研究计划进行重建， 不仅包括更传统的研究， 地质学和沉积学，还有一些技术， 实验性的，比如遥感。 遥感可以增强 通过提供大量数据进行盆地分析更多 比通过现场操作更有效、更容易 独自研究。 此外，区域视角显示， 卫星图像可以激发新的问题和见解， 地质问题，并揭示不容易看到的特征， 在地上 这项研究是正在进行的实地研究的扩展， 冲积沉积在大角盆地，怀俄明州从当地到一个 利用卫星图像的光谱数据， 数字图像处理技术。 主要目标是 提高对沉积和构造过程的认识 形成了始新世早期的冲积结构 威尔伍德编队 第二个目标是测试和完善 过去确定的大尺度古土壤旋回概念 对威尔伍德地层进行了多年的研究 这个项目 旨在扩大首席研究员的科学研究 专业知识和研究能力， 现代遥感技术和数据处理。 它提供 一个难得的机会来探索创新技术， 不仅用于研究大角牛的发展史 盆地，而且在未来的研究项目。

ROW: ANALYSIS OF ALLUVIA ARCHITECTURE AND PALEOSOLS USING REMOTE SENSING The developmental history of sedimentary basins is best reconstructed using a multidisciplinary research program that includes not only more traditional studies such as structural geology and sedimentology, but also techniques that are still experimental, such as remote sensing. Remote sensing can enhance basin analysis by providing large quantities of data more efficiently and more easily than can be accomplished through field research alone. In addition, the regional perspective shown in satellite images can stimulate new questions and insights into a geologic problem and reveal features that are not readily visible on the ground. This research is an expansion of ongoing field research of alluvial deposits in the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming from a local to a regional scale by using spectral data from satellite images and digital image processing techniques. The major objective is to improve understanding of the sedimentologic and tectonic processes which produced the alluvial architecture of the lower Eocene Willwood Formation. The second goal is to test and refine concepts of large-scale paleosol cycles determined during the past several years of research on the Willwood Formation. This project is designed to broaden the Principal Investigator's scientific expertise and research capabilities by providing experience with modern remote sensing techniques and data processing. It offers a rare opportunity to explore innovative techniques that can be used not only in studying the developmental history of the Bighorn Basin but also in future research projects.