ABSTRACT
Remote sensing imagery provides some of the best visualization of ancient processes and environments that we as geoscientists are trying to reconstruct and understand. Whether we are working with a Cretaceous carbonate bank in the Tampico Basin of Mexico or uvial sand reservoirs in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin, imagery of modern depositional environments can help us understand ancient sedimentary processes, and the distribution, geometries, and scale of ancient geobodies (those sand or carbonate bodies that comprise hydrocarbon reservoirs). They can assist us in developing our mental model of a depositional environment (where barrier bars are with respect to uvial sand sources; where a fore-reef is with respect to the back reef lagoon), and they can provide direct input (object size, orientation, and facies relationships) to object-based geomodels of reservoir units.
