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Abstract
Remote sensing has proved to be a useful tool in lineament identification and mapping. This study demonstrates the use of multispectral Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) and Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM +) satellite data obtained over two acquisition dates in 1990 and 2002 for lineament interpretation in a Malaysian tropical environment. A digital elevation model (DEM) was generated to improve the interpretation. We found that most of the major orientations in the field station could be successfully detected from the remotely sensed imagery. The results from the study show that the remote sensing technique is capable of extracting lineament trends in an inaccessible tropical forest.
Acknowledgements
This project was supported by the Malaysian Science Fund under grant number 04-01-04-SF0676. We thank the Asian Institute of Technology, where the first author was on sabbatical leave, and Dr Mostafa E. Mostafa from the Nuclear Materials Authority, Egypt for his comment on this research. We also thank the two anonymous referees for their constructive comments.