Case Study: Repsol Exploración maps the Boconó Fault in high resolution with Pix4Dmapper

Drone mapping the structural geology of Boconó Fault

Repsol Exploración used drones to study the Boconó fault in the Venezuelan Andes, where tectonic movement is shifting the landscape by about a centimeter per year. The challenge was to map remote, difficult-to-access terrain and identify geomorphic features related to fault deformation, using Pix4Dmapper from Pix4D.

Pix4D provided a UAV mapping workflow in which two drone flights captured about 300–327 images over the moraine system, which were processed in Pix4Dmapper to create a georeferenced map and digital surface model. The results revealed tectonic scarps, a sharp stream bend, a 100-meter dextral displacement of moraines and the glacial valley, and an abandoned fluvial valley, enabling measurements at true scale with high-resolution maps of about 5.7 cm GSD.

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