Rama de los sensores remotos encargada de estudiar los sucesos geológicos a través de las fotografías aéreas.
El objeto de la fotogeología es el estudio de la superficie terrestre, de los diversos materiales que la integran y de las huellas dejadas sobre ellos por la serie de procesos a los que han estado sometidos a lo largo de los tiempos geológicos.
El estudio de la fotogeología abarca la estratigrafía, litología, geología estructural, geomorfología, tectónica, hidrogeología, y, en resumen, todas las ramas de la geología que admitan para su estudio una escala macroscópica.
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The whole is other than the sum of the parts – Kurt Koofka
Bastones (rod): brillo (intensidad). Tienen la misma sensibilidad de frecuencia (0,55 um). A baja luz vemos monocromático
Conos: colores (frecuencia). Sensibles longitudes de onda del azul, verde y rojo, cuando lo tres tipos de conos son estimulados de forma percibimos el color blanco. El ojo humano discrimina más colores que tonos de grises
The extent of it at which a phenomenon or process occurs
Cambio en la posición de los objetos estacionarios debido al cambio en la posicion del observador. Los desplazamientos del paralaje ocurren solamente paralelos a la línea de vuelo, y es directamente porporcional a la altura de los objetos
Es la diferencia de las distancias entre los puntos principales y las imágenes homologas, medidas paralelas a la línea de vuelo.
Es directamente porporcional a la altura de los objetos.
Inversión del relieve
Gentle: Contour lines showing a uniform, gentle slope will be evenly spaced and wide apart. Easy walking
Steep: Contour lines showing a uniform, steep slope on a map will be evenly spaced, but close together. Very challenging, or impossible walking (i.e. contour lines may be so close that they create an impassable cliff line).
Concave: Contour lines showing a concave slope on a map will be closely spaced at the top of the terrain feature and widely spaced at the bottom. Bushwalkers going up the slope will find the terrain increasingly steep and challenging.
Convex: Contour lines showing a convex slope on a map will be widely spaced at the top and closely spaced at the bottom. Bushwalkers going down the slope cannot observe most of the slope or the terrain at the bottom, so extra care must be taken when route finding.
Peak = a mountain with a pointed top.
Saddle: A saddle is a dip or low point between two areas of higher ground. A saddle is not necessarily the lower ground between two hilltops; it may be simply a dip or break along a level ridge crest. When standing in a saddle, there is high ground in two opposite directions and lower ground in the other two directions. A saddle typically looks like an hourglass.
Gully: a gully is a stretched-out groove in the land, usually formed by a watercourse, and has high ground on three sides. Depending on its size and location water sometimes flows through it, from high to low. Contour lines forming a gully are either U-shaped or V-shaped. To determine the direction water is flowing, look at the contour lines. The closed end of the contour line (U or V) always points upstream or toward high ground. A valley is a large gully, often very flat, wide and open with a large watercourse running through it.
Ridge: a ridge is a sloping line of high ground. When standing on the centerline of a ridge, there is usually low ground in three directions and high ground in one direction with varying degrees of slope. When crossing a ridge at right angles, there is a steep climb to the crest and then a steep descent to the base. When moving along the path of the ridge, depending on the geographic location, there may be either an almost unnoticeable slope or a very visible incline. Contour lines forming a ridge tend to be U-shaped or V-shaped. The closed end of the contour line points away from high ground.
Spur: A spur is a short, continuous sloping line of higher ground, normally jutting out from the side of a ridge. A spur is often formed by two roughly parallel streams cutting draws down the side of a ridge. The ground will slope down in three directions and up in one. Contour lines on a map depict a spur with the U or V pointing away from high ground.
Cliff: A cliff is a vertical or near vertical feature; it is an abrupt change of the land. When a slope is so steep that the contour lines converge into one “carrying” contour of contours, this last contour line sometimes has tick marks pointing toward low ground (image below). Cliffs are also shown by contour lines very close together and, in some instances, touching each other.
Dendritic patterns, which are by far the most common, develop in areas where the rock (or unconsolidated material) beneath the stream has no particular fabric or structure and can be eroded equally easily in all directions. Examples would be granite, gneiss, volcanic rock, and sedimentary rock that has not been folded.
Trellis drainage patterns typically develop where sedimentary rocks have been folded or tilted and then eroded to varying degrees depending on their strength.
Rectangular patterns develop in areas that have very little topography and a system of bedding planes, fractures, or faults that form a rectangular network.
Parallel drainage system is a pattern of rivers caused by steep slopes with some relief. Because of the steep slopes, the streams are swift and straight, with very few tributaries, and all flow in the same direction. A parallel pattern also develops in regions of parallel, elongate landforms like outcropping resistant rock bands.