Use of the automated lineament analysis of the space images for exploration of oil-gas deposits and forecast of earthquakes, slope processes and ways of underground water migration

The usefulness of automated lineament analysis for the exploration and engineering geology is shown on concrete examples. The hydrocarbon deposits are established to be formed in the areas of the high density of the transverse local lineaments (to a lesser extent - the longitudinal ones) with respect to the morphological structures. Obliquely cutting lineaments have no correlation with deposits of hydrocarbons. The migration of fractured groundwater and the active development of landslides occur in areas of high density of local lineaments oriented across the river valleys and mountain ranges. The migration and concentration of alluvial groundwater occurs in the areas of regional thickening (extended) lineaments. Earthquakes are characterized by the patterns of predictive cyclical changes in systems of lineaments expressed in the increase in the degree of manifestation of transverse lineaments, regular change of the ratio of different lineaments strike and in change of the characteristics of the field lines stretch out and rose diagrams in preparation of the earthquake and after it happens. Digital elevation models reveal morphological structural lineaments, and space images - landscape lineaments that represent the disjunctive structure of the Earth’s crust best of all.