Yang, Wu-Nian, Pu, Guo-Liang, Zheng, Ping-Yuan, Cauneau, François, Ranchin, Thierry, Paris, J.P, Institute of RS and GIS, Chengdu University of Technology (CDUT), Centre Énergétique et Procédés (CEP), MINES ParisTech - École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL), and GDTA
International audience; In this paper, under the RS, GIS and GPS technology, data fusion and orthophotomaps of multi-temporal Landsat TM, SPOT, ERS SAR and RADARSAT images are made. Furthermore a lot of information on geology and structural deformation is extracted. An orthophotomap is a new type of map accurately corrected for geometry and a composite one with a simplified topographic map. In this study, the authors conduct the data fusion of Landsat TM, SPOT and ERS SAR images. Then, utilizing RSthoMapper vl. 0 software explored by themselves, they make three kinds of orthophotomaps, that is 1 : 250 000 map of Kaixian, 1 : 100 000 map of Baishahe and 1 : 50 000 map of Yunyang respectively. The last one is an orthophotomap of fusion image of TM453 and SPOT panchromatic band with 10 m ground resolution, and DEM used in the rectification comes from SPOT stereopairs. Applying the 1 : 250 000 orthophotomap of Kaixian and the theory and method of phase-separation analysis of remote sensing information field, geological and structural features are systematically interpreted and the linear and circular structures are quantitatively analyzed. With a synthesizing analysis of the combined folds, faults and related major joint systems, four periods of structural deformation and the resulted deformation fields are determined. As a result, four tectonic stress fields produced successively during the Yanshanian to Himalayan period are recovered. Through the ARSIS fusion of the Landsat TM 4,5,3 images and SPOT P images, lots of best image results with a high spatial resolution of 10 m and affluent colors are obtained. Many 3-D viewing maps of remote sensing images of the landform relief with a high resolution and projected from different directions are established. With these maps, quantitative analysis as drawing a section of landform and detecting DEM of some objects can be done directly and rapidly.