Chapter 8
A DEM -Based Volume Extraction Approach: From Micro-Scale Weathering Forms to Planetary Lava Tubes
Riccardo Pozzobon,
Claudio Mazzoli,
Silvia Salvini,
Francesco Sauro,
Matteo Massironi,
Tommaso Santagata,
Riccardo Pozzobon
Department of Geosciences, University of Padova, Italy
INAF-OAPD, Italy
Search for more papers by this authorClaudio Mazzoli
Department of Geosciences, University of Padova, Italy
Search for more papers by this authorSilvia Salvini
Department of Geosciences, University of Padova, Italy
Search for more papers by this authorFrancesco Sauro
Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, Italian Institute of Speleology, University of Bologna, Italy
Search for more papers by this authorMatteo Massironi
Department of Geosciences, University of Padova, Italy
Search for more papers by this authorRiccardo Pozzobon,
Claudio Mazzoli,
Silvia Salvini,
Francesco Sauro,
Matteo Massironi,
Tommaso Santagata,
Riccardo Pozzobon
Department of Geosciences, University of Padova, Italy
INAF-OAPD, Italy
Search for more papers by this authorClaudio Mazzoli
Department of Geosciences, University of Padova, Italy
Search for more papers by this authorSilvia Salvini
Department of Geosciences, University of Padova, Italy
Search for more papers by this authorFrancesco Sauro
Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, Italian Institute of Speleology, University of Bologna, Italy
Search for more papers by this authorMatteo Massironi
Department of Geosciences, University of Padova, Italy
Search for more papers by this authorBook Editor(s):Andrea Bistacchi,
Matteo Massironi,
Sophie Viseur,
Andrea Bistacchi
Department of Environmental and Earth Sciences, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy
Search for more papers by this authorMatteo Massironi
Department of Geosciences, University of Padua, Padua, Italy
Search for more papers by this authorFirst published: 01 April 2022
Summary
We show how a GIS-based approach on 3D morphologies can be used to analyze volume variations from the microscopic scale on rock samples to large collapse pits on Earth and Mars.
The microscale analyses were performed on scans acquired by a confocal laser scanning microscope from carbonate rock plates dissolved by immersion in slightly acidic solutions. Each studied sample underwent an increasing number of immersions aiming to calculate the recession rate of such stones commonly used in cultural heritage when exposed to acidic rain. We achieved this by creating a synthetic reference surface and calculating the difference in height with the scanned sample surface.
The same approach was applied in planetary remote sensing to evaluate the actual volume of collapsed conduit sections of Earth and Martian lava tubes from DEMs. Lava tubes can be up to tens of kilometers long on Earth and up to hundreds of kilometers on Mars but a numerical estimate of the collapse volumes (and thus of the voids) was never attempted. The creation of a synthetic surface on top of collapses best approximating the pristine topography and calculation of the volumes in between allows comparing the total volume of the collapsed sections in distinct planetary bodies.
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