Corinth terraces re-visited: Improved paleoshoreline determination using Pleiades-DEMs

• DOI: 10.1127/1864-5658/2015-06
• Publication Date: 2015-10-06T23:25:50Z
• Authors: G De Gelder; D Fernández-Blanco; R Lacassin; R Armijo; A Delorme; J Jara-Muñoz; D Melnick
• Keywords: Pleiades

The newest generation of satellites have greatly improved the capabilities optical imagery over last decade. Ground resolution has increased by one order magnitude (to sub-metric pixel images), and sensors allow images to be located with an absolute accuracy within a few meters. Better-resolved facilitate refined tectonic studies faults, basins, terraces, other geomorphic features as it provides opportunity extract detailed topographic information. We developed high-resolution digital elevation models (DEMs) in eight locations Greece from tri-stereo satellite acquired new Pleiades platform CNES. With 0.5m resolution, these DEMs are state-of-the-art comparison previous made imagery. In this study we explore potential DEMs, eastern Gulf Corinth, for analysis flight marine terraces.