The integrate geomorphological, morphotectonics investigations using remote sensing data from space as the basis for the efficiency increasing of geological works

Abstract

The underestimation of the integrated application of geomorphological, morphotectonic information and materials of space remote data during a geological research, the geological survey and predictive-prospecting work significantly reduces their effectiveness. The imperfection of the geomorphological researches methodology focused on the study of territories relief as a collection of surfaces of geological bodies is one of the possible reasons for this. Perspectives opens the transition to the research of landforms and geological structures, bodies in their unity, as three-dimensional, volumetric objects. Fundamentally new opportunities for studying the geology of the seas and oceans bottom are associated, in particular, with the visualization of digital 3D relief models created on the basis of the global bathymetric database GEBCO 2014 (http ://Ocean3dproects...), regional echo-depth-sounder metering’s maps, altimetry materials and remote sensing of the Earth from space. The topicality of such investigations is also due to the fact determined that plate tectonics cannot explain many features of the structure of the Earth and individual regions relief. A number of examples show that modern geomorphology combined with methods of remote sensing from space and computerization should be considered as one of the necessary disciplines for geological mapping and work aimed at solving various geological problems. The further common development of the planet relief sciences (geomorphology + morphotectonics) determines the need to train geomorphologists at both geographical and geological faculties of universities.