Optical characteristics of landscape features asinformational resource for solving onshore oil and gasexploration tasks with remote sensing data
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| 1Arkhipov, OI, Stankevych, SA, 1Azimov, OT, Rybak, OA, Bondarenko, AD 1State institution «Scientific Centre for Aerospace Research of the Earth of the Institute of Geological Sciences of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine», Kyiv, Ukraine |
| Space Sci. & Technol. 2025, 31 ;(4):31-47 |
| https://doi.org/10.15407/knit2025.04.031 |
| Publication Language: Ukrainian |
Abstract: The article looks into the possibility for using optical characteristics of landscape features (plants and soils) to deal with onshore oil and gas exploration tasks. Further growth of oil and gas reserves in the Dnieper-Donets basin is known to be linked to small-sized traps of the combined type, which are hard to detect and require significant time scopes. Therefore, it calls for urgency to develop new unconventional methods that would allow for not only predicting traps, but also providing an assessment of their productivity, followed by prospecting and exploration, including remote and ground-based spectral measurements of plants and soils. Based on the analysis of complex geophysical and geochemical factors of the environment above the hydrocarbon deposits, which determine the change in the optical characteristics of the vegetation cover, and taking into account the materials of foreign and domestic authors, as well as the results of the own research, we propose a conceptual model for formation of optical anomalies of landscapes above hydrocarbon deposits. Also, we provide a list of oil and gas prospecting and exploration tasks that are already being solved successfully with the help of remote and ground-based spectral measurements of vegetation cover.
The final information product of the application of optical anomalies in plants and soils is a map with the distribution of probabilistic estimates of the oil and gas occurrence of subsoil resources within the given research territory.
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| Keywords: geological-geophysical data, hydrocarbon deposits, oil-and-gas prospects., optical anomaly, remote sensing data, spectral contrast, structural interpretation |
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2. Azimov O., Bagriy I., Dubosarsky V. (2022). Predicting hydrocarbon fields using the complex of atmogeochemical and remote sensing methods. Visnyk of Taras Shevchenko Nat. Univ. of Kyiv: Geology, 3 (98), 104-109. ISSN 1728-2713 [in Ukrainian with English abstract].
https://doi.org/10.17721/1728-2713.98.13
3. Arkhipov O. I., Arkhipova T. O., Savchenko Y. B. (2007). Solving oil and gas prospecting tasks using remote sensing materials (as applied to prospect areas in the Luhansk region) Materials of regional conference on the «Possibility of current GIS/RS technologies for solving problems in the Lugansk region». Lugansk. 21-22 November 2007. Conf. Papers, 2007 [in Ukrainian].
4. Arkhipova T. O. (2006). Studies of the environmental factors that account for the formation of optical anomalies over deposits of carbohydrates onshore. Current trends of Ukrainian geological science: Scientific Research with the Institute of geological science with the National Academy of sciences of Ukraine; P. F. Gozhyk, ed. Kyiv. 77-82. [in Ukrainian].
5. Arkhipova T. O. (2004). Preliminary results of geochemical and remote monitoring of landscapes in the context of solving oil and gas searching problems. Prospecting and ecological geochemistry. Kyiv, 2004. 4. 77-80. [in Ukrainian]
6. Multi-spectral methods of remote sensing of the Earth in problems of environmental studies. (2006). Ed. V. I. Lyalko and M. O. Popov. Kyiv: Naukova Dumka. 269-275. [in Ukrainian with English abstract].
7. Bagriy I. D., Gladun V. V., Dovzhok T. E et al. (2001). Development of a complex of structural- atmosphere geochemical methods for forecasting and searching for hydrocarbons. Geological Journal. 2. 89-93. [in Ukrainian].
8. Vinogradov B. V. (1973). Defining soil moisture by remote aerospace methods. Water Resources. No. 3. 70-92. [in Russian].
9. Voronoi E. E. (2003). Black soils are a prospecting sign of oil and gas potential in the region. Issues of development of the gas industry of Ukraine. Issue. XXXI. 107-111. [in Russian].
10. Golubov, S. (2023). Reasoning of the possibilities of using spectrometric data obtained from UAVs and the Sentinel-2 satellite to solve oil and gas exploration problems on land. Ukr. J. Remote Sensing, 10(1), 29-35. [in Ukrainian with English abstract].
https://doi.org/10.36023/ujrs.2023.10.1.235
11. Davis Sh. M., Landgrebe D. A., Phillips T. L. et al. (1983). Emote sensing: a quantitative approach. Ed. F. Swain and Sh. Davis. Translation from English. Moscow: Nedra, 415 p. [in Russian].
12. Zhukov B. S. (1987). Physical foundations of remote sensing. Results of Science and Technology. Exploration of the Earth from space. 6-78, [in Russian].
13. Zhuravel N. E., Vasiliev A. N. (1987). Patterns of formation of anomalous concentrations of metals in the soil and vegetation cover of the Shebelinsky field. Reports of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, series B. Geology, chemistry and biological sciences, 3. 14-17. [in Russian].
14. Zorkin L. M., Karus E. V., Kuznetsov O. L. et al. (1978). Patterns of formation and distribution of geophysical and geochemical fields. Soviet Geology. 11. 94-104. [in Russian].
15. Kondratyev K. Y., Kozoderov V. V., Fedchenko P. P. (1986). Aerospace research of soils and vegetation. Leningrad. Gidrometeoizdat. 229 p. [in Russian].
16. Kronberg P. (1985). Fernerkundung der Erde: Grundlagen und Methoden des Remote Sensing in der Geologie. Stuttgart: Ferdinand Enke Verlag, 394 p. ISBN 3-432-94601-5 [in Russian].
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18. Lithogeochemical studies in the search for oil and gas fields. (1987). ed. O.L. Kuznetsov. Moscow: Nedra. 184 p. [in Russian].
19. Lukin A. E. (2004). Direct searches for oil and gas: reasons for failure and ways to improve efficiency. Geologist of Ukraine. 3. 18-43. [in Russian].
20. Pererva V. M., Arkhipov A. I., Busel G. F., Levchyk E. I., Rybak E. A., Oskanyan T. V. (2002). State and ways of improving satellite technology for forecasting oil and gas deposits. Space science and technology. T.8, 2/3, 201-206. [in Russian].
21. Popov M. A., Lyalko V. I., Stankevich S. A. (2019). National Earth Remote Sensing System: searching for rational solutions. Space science and technology. v. 25, 6, 39-50. DOI: 10.15407/knit2019.06.039 [in Russian].
https://doi.org/10.15407/knit2019.06.039
22. Popov M., Тopolnytskyi М., Titarenko O., Stankevich S. (2022). Method for oil and gas estimates of exploration sites via geological, parametric and satellite information. Visnyk of Taras Shevchenko Nat. Univ. of Kyiv: Geology, 1 (96), 104-112. [Ukrainian with English abstract].
https://doi.org/10.17721/1728-2713.96.14
23. Current methods of remote search of natural resources (2017). Ed. V.I. Lyalko and M. O. Popov. Kyiv: Center for Aero-space research of the Earth, Institute of Geological Science with the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. 221 p. ISBN 978-966-02-8295-7.
24. Tolchelnikov Y. S. (1974). Optical properties of the landscape. Leningrad: Nauka, 252 p.
25. Fedchenko P. P., Kondratyev K. Y. (1981). Spectral reflecting capability of some soils. Leningrad, 239 p. [in Russian].
26. Azimov O. (2023). Active tectonics and the current stress field within local areas of the Dnieper-Donets Depression, taking into account the data of remote sensing of the Earth. Int. Conf. of Young Professionals «GeoTerrace-2023» (02-05 October 2023, Lviv, Ukraine). Conf. Papers, 2023, 1-5.
https://doi.org/10.3997/2214-4609.2023510028
27. Azimov O. T., Bagriy I. D., Dubosarsky V. R. (2022). Application of remote sensing and atmogeochemical methods for assessing prospects and effective planning of oil-gas explorations. 16th Int. Sci. Conf. on Monitoring of Geological Processes and Ecological Condition of the Environment (15-18 November 2022, Kyiv, Ukraine). Conf. Papers, 2022, 1-5.
https://doi.org/10.3997/2214-4609.2022580101
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https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0303243421001392
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2021.102432