Streamline2Scanline

@ 2020 by Andrea Bistacchi, distributed under the GNU AGPL v3.0 license.

Creates curvilinear scanlines, perpendicular to curvilinear fractures or lineaments, and calculates spacing statistics.

Details can be found in the following paper. Please cite it if you reuse the code.

De Toffoli, B., Massironi, M., Mazzarini, F., & Bistacchi, A. (2021). Rheological and mechanical layering of the crust underneath thumbprint terrains in Arcadia Planitia, Mars. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 126, e2021JE007007. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JE007007

To run the analysis, download the repository and run streamline2scanline.m in MATLAB®

Spacing statistics analysis algorithms have been derived, with refactoring, from those used in DomStudioFracStat1D, discussed in the paper Bistacchi A., Mittempergher S., Martinelli M., Storti F., 2020. On a new robust workflow for the statistical and spatial analysis of fracture data collected with scanlines (or the importance of stationarity), Solid Earth, 11, 2535–2547, 2020.

Please cite this paper if you use the code!