Despite significant advancements in mapping the remotest and most inhospitable places on Earth, vast areas remain unexplored due to technical and/or financial challenges. Some of these regions are crucial, as they hold the potential to uncover important geological and habitat information to facilitate future exploration and understanding of challenging environments.
Similarly, space exploration has seen numerous missions to Mars, the Moon and the bodies of our Solar System, and geologic mapping is needed to support science discovery and exploration.
Remote locations are commonly associated with the ocean floor, logistically challenging terrestrial regions, and or planetary surfaces. Extreme environmental conditions are found in hot deserts, under the ice, in high-mountain ranges, in volcanic edifices, hidden underneath dense canopy cover, or located within the near-surface crust. All such locations are prime targets for geologic mapping in a wide sense, where remote sensing data plays a critical role in driving investigation and sampling at specific sites.
This session invites contributions that explore innovative techniques and methods for field and remote sensing data collection, integration of diverse datasets, for the development of geological maps and the use of digital interoperable formats and protocols.
Topics discussed at the session will include:
- Ocean mapping using manned and unmanned vehicles and devices
- Planetary geologic mapping
- Offshore exploration using remote sensing techniques
- Geologic investigation of desert environments
- Innovative techniques for field and remote sensing data collection
- Integration of non-common datasets
- International cooperation
- Digital formats and interoperability/usability of geological maps
- Geologic mapping programs from national and space agencies
- Cartographic representation
- Derived or specialized maps
The goal of this session is to stimulate and foster collaboration between marine, terrestrial and planetary geoscientists, highlighting the similarities, differences, and open issues in geologic mapping. By sharing knowledge, techniques and methods, we aim to fill potential gaps and enhance our understanding of these environments.
This session focuses on the importance of geologic maps in exploration. We tied together ocean floors geologic mapping to geologic mapping on planet Earth, to geologic mapping of the solid bodies of the solar system. Having techniques and methods presented in a same session will stimulate discussions and synergies that would not be possible in environment-specific symposia.
EGU25-13782 | ECS | Posters virtual | VPS20
Integrated remote sensing data and field investigations for geological mapping and structural analysis in the Er-Rich area (High Atlas, Morocco)Fri, 02 May, 14:00–15:45 (CEST) vPoster spot 4 | vP4.4