Most fracture properties, such as orientation and density, are acquired by interpreting data obtained at the wellbores, while fracture properties between wells are typically derived from seismic data. However, this information is sparse or has low resolution leading to the study and analysis of outcrops. The data acquisition in outcrops is facilitated by its 3D representation in Digital Outcrop Models (DOM) obtained from LiDAR and Photogrammetry. It also allows virtual interpretation and fracture detection. In either case, the 3D fracture data need to be clustered in fracture sets to allow the statistical analysis necessary to upscale and resample the DFN. This clusterization is carried out by methods like k-means and fuzzy, however with caveats, like the prior definition of the number of clusters. In this work, we propose the use of agglomerative hierarchical clustering to cluster 3D fracture data obtained by a KD-Tree segmentation algorithm. Results showed that when compared to k-means, the proposed method presented more compact clusters and balance when considering Fisher’s statistics of dispersion.

Hyperspectral images often have low spatial resolution due to the sensor sizes required to capture the required spectral response. Super-resolution (SR) techniques try to mitigate this by injecting more detail in the upscaled image, either with numerical methods or deep learning and Convolution Neural Networks. In the deep learning methods, the models learn image details by inferring a high-resolution (HR) image from a synthetic low-resolution (LR) image that simulates the natural degradation of sensors by applying resampling (to reduce the image detail) and noising (to add small errors and interference). Often disregarded in the literature, the resampling method applied to generate the synthetic image can impact greatly the deep learning model training. This work, evaluate several resampling techniques to measure this impact using the Harvard hyperspectral dataset. Results showed that the Lanczos filter was the best among eight other resampling methods. The Nemenyi and Friedman ranking statistical tests also indicated that the Cubic-Spline, Bicubic, and RMS achieved good results.

Improvement in spatial resolution of remote sensing images will always be a hot-topic since the sharpening of image objects is mandatory for many appications. Even thought image instruments have received great improvements in the recent years, super-resolution techniques are welcome to increase even more the level of quality of the data for further interpretations. In this paper we present a multi-frame super-resolution approach that uses a set of UAV images acquired at the same spot, but with slight different perspectives caused by random fluctuations. The small off-sets between consecutive pixels of the low spatial resolution images are considered at subpixel level to feed an arithmetic system of equations able to produce high resolution pixels, which are the unknowns of the system. The results are soundness and could show visual enhancement. However, further developments is need to in deep undertanding and possible advancement of the designed approach.

Monitoring the available volume of raw water in reservoirs is essential to ensure security of supply to the population. Climate change and global warming had substantially changed the weather bringing constant droughts and unexpected rainfalls, making the correct estimation of water bodies an important matter. The technique for recognizing water bodies is called bathymetry, where by a sonar and embedded global positioning system (GPS) collect data to recreate the depth topography. However, this work is costly and exposes the assessment team to health risks. Therefore, we are proposing a prototype of a semi-automated portable bathymetry equipment to facilitate data collection and thus enable more frequent updates of reservoir volume. The objectives of this work were to construct a reduced model of a vessel and to calibrate an adapted ultrasonic sensor for depth measurement. The ultrasonic sensor mounted on an ARDUINO micro-controller was tested in the FATEC-Jahu's test tank and its readings were compared against measurements made manually. We conclude that the reduced model is stable for data collection with an operational range between 1.0 and 20.0 meters when considering a linear adjustment of the sensor readings achieving an R2 score of 0.9998.

Reservoir rocks have intrinsic properties of porosity and per-meability that make them natural hosts for hydrocarbons, and the estimation of these properties is key to simulating reser-voir models. Additionally, fractures can greatly influence the fluid flow within the reservoir. However, fracture data from reservoirs is often disregarded due to its sub-seismic scale. In this matter, analogue outcrops play an important role in Dis-crete Fracture Network (DFN) modeling which represents the fracture data in terms of their attribute distribution allowing the scaling of the fracture data to reservoir scale which is done mostly by stochastic methods. Recent works have used Gen-erative Adversarial Networks (GANs) to scale porosity data from images, and we propose its use in fracture data from images acquired from Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) em-ploying a Deep Convolutional GAN (DC-GAN). We obtained similar attribute distribution for fracture aperture showing the viability to replicate statistical behavior.

Carbonate outcrops are widely studied due to their character-istic analogous to oil and gas reservoirs. Analyzes made with data from these outcrops are used to assist in the description of reservoirs located at great depths. These rocky expo-sures can be easily detected in satellite images using machine learning. Considering the diversity of techniques used in the identification/classification of features on the satellite image data, this work aimed to evaluate the best machine learning technique for identifying carbonate outcrops in Landsat 8 data, considering the carbonate outcrops from the Jandaíra formation, in northeast Brazil. We employed techniques like Grid Search, cross-validation, and validation statistics like Friedman and Nemenyi. Considering the metrics F1 score and Mathews Correlation Coefficient, the MLP technique presented the best results, achieving a F1 score of 0.823, against the SVM with a F1 score of 0.810 and the Random Forest technique with a F1 score of 0.812.

Differently form RGB photos, multi-frame acquisitions of hyperspectral data are unfeasible due to the pushbroom mechanisms of hyperspectral sensors. Therefore, 3D digi-tal surface models including good quality hyperspectral in-formation are available only by integrating 2D images to the point cloud generated using photogrametric cameras or laser scanners. However, geometric differences presented by sen-sor mechanisms resulting in varied perspectives of the same objects present on the scene deeply harm the spatial registration, and thus, the post integration procedure. In this paper we suggest a pre-processing step aiming to adjust objects to the same geometric perspective in order to later integrate the RGB cloud mesh to the hyperspectral data in a more efficient manner. We firstly build the RGB point cloud for later simu-lating the same perspective of push-broom sensor generating a RGB orthomosaic similar to the hyperspectral image. Pre-liminary results indicate an increasing in the number of tie points when registering is performed using the resulting syn-thetic sampling compared to the registration of original data.

Very high spatial resolution data seems to reach its maximum for orbital images due to unavoidable atmospheric interactions. At the same time, special hyperspectral cameras are being developed to operate on-board manned or unmanned aircrafts at a fixed optics, which prevents its using for imaging near objects in laboratory conditions. Both limitations can only be surpassed by using super-resolution principles. In this paper, we present a multi-looking approach for enhancing the spatial resolution of images acquired by systems that exhausted their natural ability to provide finer images. The method exploits multiple image takes with controlled spatial differences to produce a higher resolution output. Experiments with static hyperspectral sensor and synthetic data have proven the approach is sound and robust to many applications (e.g., rock samples).

New sensors aboard recently launched satellites have induced the development of several measures aimed to indicate the presence of many materials over the Earth. Karsts are places rich in carbonate rocks and present large economic and environmental importance. This paper aimed at assessing the performance and consistency of different carbonate estimators derived from orbital images acquired over a controlled karst area. Experiments were assisted by a multi-scaled reference data built through a high spatial resolution Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) image acquired over the selected area. Results show a considerable unconformity among selected measures and better performance presented by indices exploiting measures along visible and infrared spectral regions.