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Systematic structural analysis based upon the spatial information contained in remotely-sensed images depends upon the accurate interpretation and annotation of the attitudes and surface traces of fundamental structural elements (bedding and foliation planes, faults and joints). In eastern Australia, as in other regions characterised by humid weathering and mid-latitude forests, these elements are largely manifested as structural landforms produced through the agency of fluviatile erosion. The interpretation of structurallandforms may however be compromised by several inter-related factors which include image scale, solar illumination direction and elevation, terrain roughness and erosional history. The effects of these factors and suggested techniques to overcome the subjectivity which they introduce into photogeological studies are illustrated from the results of research in eastern Queensland.
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Nash, C.R. (1992). Factors Affecting the Acquisition of Structural Data from Remotely-Sensed Images of Eastern Australia. In: Rickard, M.J., Harrington, H.J., Williams, P.R. (eds) Basement Tectonics 9. Proceedings of the International Conferences on Basement Tectonics, vol 3. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2654-0_6
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