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Remote sensing for petroleum exploration methods.

1989; Japan Institute of Energy; Volume: 68; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3775/jie.68.96

2185-226X

Koichi OITA,

Advanced Computational Techniques and Applications

Remote sensing technology has been used for surface geological survey since early 1900s. In the beginning, people investigated land morphology from fly-ing balloon. Two times of world war accelerated to develop new technology of aero-photogrammetry and instruments from which geological interpretation could be made. Later by 1960s, SLAR and SAR radar systems have been designed for 24 hour use without weather condition.Development of digital processing could facilitate to make composite images in 1970s.TM, SPOT and MSS have been developed for advanced purposes. Now it is possible to make geological maps in the scale of 1: 50, 000 by using these new technologies.Remote sensing has been constantly applied to petroleum exploration through the time with developments of sensing tools. It is still a very effective tool in the early exploration stage for a quick interpretation of geology of regional area, although there are limitations for extracting characters and for the usage of applications.