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

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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.