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Lineament patterns detected from remotely sensed data provide useful information to geoscientists, specially in the study of basement tectonics, groundwater targetting and mineral exploration. Improvements in the spatial resolution of satellite images have resulted in the detection of short and faint lineaments which have hitherto gone unnoticed The IRS-1A LISS-II data offers a significant improvement in spatial resolution as compared to the Landsat MSS. A set of computer programmes developed for analysis of lineaments were used to study the parameters such as lineament frequency, length and density in order to quantify the added information derived using IRS-1A LISS-II images. The incremental contribution of LISS-II images are of the order of 100 per cent for lineament frequency and about 60 per cent for total line kilometers of lineaments detected.
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Raghavan, V., Panchanathan, P.V. A comparative evaluation of IRS-1A LISS-II and landsat MSS images using computer-aided lineament data analysis. J Ind Soc Remote Sens 18, 9–17 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03030728
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03030728