The concept of lineaments covers a very wide range of geological phenomena, from plate boundaries on the order of thousands of kilometres, to micronsized fractures in mineral grains. The complexity in the spatial distribution of the lineaments studies is nowadays increasingly used in geosciences. This method can provide a bridge between classical geology and geophysics, and particularly powerful for studying large and inaccessible regions.
The good correlations of the obtained data with some geophysical data from the same area allow that the complexity in the spatial distribution of the lineaments can give qualitative information on the interior of the earth (or on other planets). Lineaments in equatorial Africa were chosen to apply the fractal analysis methodology.
In this paper, the complexity in the spatial distribution of the lineaments was investigated from on remote sensing topographic (SRTM DEM) and multispectral (Landsat) data. Keywords: Lineament Fractal Analysis SRTM Equatorial Africa Received Marevised Apaccepted May 5, 2013 This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. 1Isotopic Geochemistry and Chemical Geodynamics Laboratory, DSTE (CP 160/02) Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Bruxelles, BelgiqueĢInstitut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, Le Bois-Marie, Bures-sur-Yvette, FranceģUMR CNRS 6250 (LIENSs), ILE, Université of La Rochelle, La Rochelle, FranceĤUMR CNRS 6112 (LPGN), Université of Nantes, Nantes, FranceĮmail: © 2013 Collin Nkono et al.
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