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GIS TECHNOLOGY OF USING REMOTE SURVEYING MATERIALS 
IN COMPILATION OF GEOLOGICAL MAPS 
Sergei l.Strelnikov 
Russian Geological Research Institute (VSEGEI), Russia 
Eugeny V.Kuznetsov, Vladimir l.Zacharov 
Russian Research Institute of Remote Sensing Methods for Geology (VNIIKAM), Russia 
Comission VII, Working Group 4 
KEY WORDS: Geology, Application, Mapping, GIS, Image 
ABSTRACT: 
Remote sensing methods are necessarily used in geological surveing on the territory of Russia and 
compilation of the geological maps. Use of remote surveying materials in the geological cartography is 
determined by their informativeness, which is interpreted as the possibility of revealing those elements of 
geological structure from images, which should be reflected in the map. The informativeness is affected by 
technical and natural factors. 
Modern computer GIS technologies for integrated analysis of geological and remote sensing data and 
compilation of geological maps envisage: 1, Revealing of the structural framework based on initial 
geological maps and the lineament analysis of remote sensing materials; 2, Revealing the outlines of 
geological bodies.; 3, Revealing the specific features of composition and inner structure of geological 
bodies; 4, Overlapping of varios thematic layers, and additional joint analysis of the image pattern, of 
geological and geophysical materials for a more precise definition and confirmation of the geological nature 
of certain elements, recorded using the remote sensing materials; 4, Compilation of the final map. 
A stage-by-stage integral analysis of remote sensing materials and geological evidence, their mutual 
comparison and correction of the obtained results at all stages of map compilation ensure a high quality of 
the latter. 
1. APPLICATION OF RSM There are two approaches to using remote 
sensing materials (RSM) for compilation of 
geological maps. one of them is realised in the 
form of specialized aero- and cosmogeological 
maps, where the remote sensing information 
makes up the main contents. These maps can be 
assigned to the structural-formational type, since 
mapping in Russia is compilation of State the main object of cartography is the structural- 
Geological Maps on 1:200,000 and 1:1,000,000 petrological complex, revealed using the image 
scales compiled sheet-by-sheet. Small-scale features. 
maps of the whole territory of Russia and its 
large geological-structural regions are compiled 
on their basis. Improvement of the informative 
character, quality and reliability of geological 
Remote sensing methods occupy a highly 
important place in the general complex of 
methods used for geological surveying and 
compilation of maps of geological content. At 
present the most important type of geological 
In the second approach RSM are regarded as 
one of the types of initial cartographic materials 
on which basis the geological map is compiled. 
maps is one of primary tasks whose solution is Use of RSM in this case is determined by their 
possible at the expense of more comprehensive informative character which is interpreted as the 
considering the information obtained while possibility of revealing those elements of 
analysing the materials of remote surveying. geological structure from images, which should 
be reflected in the map. 
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International Archives of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. Vol. XXXI, Part B7. Vienna 1996