ROW: Analysis of Alluvial Architecture and Paleosols Using Remote Sensing

ROW：利用遥感对冲积建筑和古土壤进行分析利用多学科研究计划重建沉积盆地的发展史是最好的，该计划不仅包括更传统的研究，如构造地质学和沉积学，但也有仍处于试验阶段的技术，如遥感技术。遥感可以提供大量数据，比仅通过实地研究更有效、更容易地提供大量数据，从而加强盆地分析。此外，卫星图像显示的区域视角可以激发对地质问题的新问题和洞察，并揭示地面上不易看到的特征。这项研究利用卫星图像的光谱数据和数字图像处理技术，将怀俄明州Bighorn盆地正在进行的冲积沉积物实地研究从局部扩展到区域尺度。主要目的是提高对产生始新世下部威尔伍德组冲积结构的沉积学和构造过程的了解。第二个目标是测试和完善在过去几年对威尔伍德地层的研究中确定的大规模古土壤循环的概念。该项目旨在通过提供现代遥感技术和数据处理方面的经验，扩大首席调查员的科学专长和研究能力。它提供了一个难得的机会来探索创新技术，这些技术不仅可以用于研究比格伦盆地的发展史，而且可以用于未来的研究项目。

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.