Mapping the fracture network in the Lilstock pavement, Bristol Channel, UK: manual versus automatic

Weismüller, Christopher; Prabhakaran, Rahul; Passchier, Martijn; Urai, Janos L.; Bertotti, Giovanni; Reicherter, Klaus

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/se-11-1773-2020

Articles | Volume 11, issue 5

https://doi.org/10.5194/se-11-1773-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/se-11-1773-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 11, issue 5

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18 Sep 2020

Research article |

| 18 Sep 2020

Mapping the fracture network in the Lilstock pavement, Bristol Channel, UK: manual versus automatic

Christopher Weismüller, Rahul Prabhakaran, Martijn Passchier, Janos L. Urai, Giovanni Bertotti, and Klaus Reicherter

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RC1: 'Reviews of Mapping the fracture network in the Lilstock pavement, Bristol Channel, UK: manual versus automatic by Weismüller et al.', Roberto Emanuele Rizzo, 10 Jun 2020
- AC1: 'Reply to 'Reviews of Mapping the fracture network in the Lilstock pavement, Bristol Channel, UK: manual versus automatic by Weismüller et al.' by Roberto Emanuele Rizzo', Christopher Weismüller, 10 Jul 2020
RC2: 'Review of SE-2020-67 by William Dunne', William Dunne, 20 Jun 2020
- AC2: 'Reply tp 'Review of SE-2020-67 by William Dunne'', Christopher Weismüller, 10 Jul 2020

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AR by Christopher Weismüller on behalf of the Authors (10 Jul 2020) Author's response Manuscript

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ED: Publish as is (27 Jul 2020) by Federico Rossetti (Executive editor)

AR by Christopher Weismüller on behalf of the Authors (28 Jul 2020)

Short summary

We photographed a fractured limestone pavement with a drone to compare manual and automatic fracture tracing and analyze the evolution and spatial variation of the fracture network in high resolution. We show that automated tools can produce results comparable to manual tracing in shorter time but do not yet allow the interpretation of fracture generations. This work pioneers the automatic fracture mapping of a complete outcrop in detail, and the results can be used as fracture benchmark.