Automated lineament extraction and mapping of the Sudbury impact structure using orbital and airborne remote sensing: Implications for ore and resource exploration

这项工作将与Wallbridge矿业有限公司合作完成，该公司拥有 萨德伯里建筑群北部范围内的大型地块。Wallbridge将提供一个至关重要的 以及昂贵的北岭高分辨率航空图像(约83,500美元)。这项研究的结果将 为参与双方提供互惠互利的机会，以及探索未来机会的手段 西区和沃尔布里奇交叉口。主要目标是利用现代卫星和机载图像处理 识别与萨德伯里撞击结构相关的线性和准线性特征的技术。其中一些 这些特征代表了与形成萨德伯里的撞击事件有关的裂缝和断层。如果空间 可以重建与撞击事件相关的特征的密度、分布、几何图案和方向， 那么萨德伯里的原始直径就可以确定了。这反过来将增加我们预测 可能会发现与萨德伯里有关的新的经济资源矿床。

This work will be accomplished in collaboration with Wallbridge Mining Company, Limited, which owns a large land package of properties in the North Range of the Sudbury complex. Wallbridge will provide a crucial and expensive high-resolution airborne-image of the North Range (~$83,500). The results from this study will provide mutual benefits to both parties involved, and the means for exploring future opportunities between Western and Wallbridge. The main objective is to utilize modern satellite and airborne image processing techniques to identify linear and quasi-linear features associated with the Sudbury impact structure. Some of these features represent fractures and faults associated with the impact event that formed Sudbury. If the spatial density, distribution, geometric pattern and orientation of features tied to the impact event can be reconstructed, then the original diameter of Sudbury may be determined. This in turn will increase our ability to predict were new economic resources deposits associated with Sudbury may be found.