Análise da exatidão posicional na integração de dados de (sub)superfície em modelos digitais de afloramentos a partir de sensores remotos não orbitais

Abstract

The increasing advance of new technologies in the field of geosciences, such as GNSS positioning, mapping by GPR or the generation of three dimensional models with the LIDAR technique allows the integration of orbital and non-orbital remote sensing techniques for different applications in geosciences. Thus, it is necessary to experiment, test and scientifically evaluate the potential of integration of these different technologies in order to explore the different types of data. The analysis, description and interpretation of outcrops are daily activities of the geological fieldwork. Despite the technological advances in the last decades, the acquisiton of quantified data from instruments and sensors did not substitute the traditional source of data of the geologists: the observation of the rock. Thus, the study of outcrops is fundamental in the acquisition of intermediate data between the megascopic (e.g. regional geology) and microscopic scales (e.g., sample), quite dependent of acquisition by remote sensors and instruments. The main challenge in this type of research is to integrate quantitative digital data obtained by instruments and sensors based on different principles with qualitative, analogic data, obtained by the subjective perception of the geoscientist. The main purpose of this study was to analyze, test and validate this multidisciplinary approach to the modeling of outcrops considering a real case study in Morro Papaléo Outcrop. For this, it was considered as a premise that the geological model resulting from the integration of different data had not a positional error in an order of magnitude higher than the spatial resolution of the more limited sensor. The data integration using appropriate methodological procedures allowed generate a Digital Outcrop Model (DOM) which made it possible to view, measure and accurately interpret the geology from a 3D geological representation. The field validation was performed to ensure that the quality of the proposed methodology can be used in this type of study. Through geophysical sections was possible to correlate subsurface data with those obtained with the LIDAR technique, allowing data integration of surface and subsurface data. Therefore, with the establishment of the 3D model generated in a consistent database, calibrated and validated, at any time more data can be added to this dynamic model.