An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is employed to autonomously collect nadir aerial photographs with sub-centimetre resolution.
Digital photogrammetry is used to compute a high-resolution orthophotograph and a dense 3D point cloud.
Digitally extracted bedding orientation measurements are used for 3D implicit modelling and bulk shortening strain estimation.
Systematic fracture sets in basement and cover rocks are digitally traced on high-resolution orthophotographs and compared.
Data suggest that one set of fractures is inherited from preferentially oriented upright folds and reverse faults in the basement.