You may use LANDSAT imagery as well as ASTER 30m DEM and SRTM 90m DEM for the extraction of lineament. You may opt for ArcGIS or ERDAS Imagine software for this purpose. Nevertheless, open source GIS tools may also be used. There is a lot of literature available which demonstrates the extraction of lineament using DTM, DEM and other satellite imagery. Following links may be useful for you.

https://www.itc.nl/library/papers_2006/msc/ereg/arenas.pdf

http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/doc/900443193.html?FMT=ABS&pubnum=1500518

http://www.erpublications.com/uploaded_files/download/download_06_03_2013_02_03_27.pdf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwKxBaGzD4o

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Hope this helps!

You can extract from landsat and DEM data(SRTM, ASTER) through ARC GIS, ERDAS, ENVI software.    Following links may be useful for you

http://www.idosi.org/rjes/rjes4(2)12/2.pdf

http://www.ijarcsse.com/docs/papers/Special_Issue/icctrd2014/ijarcsse_022.pdf

https://www.itc.nl/library/papers_2006/msc/ereg/arenas.pdf

in addition with what volleaques have shared, kindly refer to Khoi Dung dung Thesis at obafemi awolowo space program he did the same extraction in his thesis, with more details on the linearment, otherwise i wish you sucess in this of you so need more i can always refer you in my library.

I don't have an answer for you, but am currently reading this article online (https://cybergeo.revues.org/2856) The use of Remote Sensing Technology in geological Investigation and mineral Detection in El Azraq-Jordan, By:Samih Al Rawashdeh, Bassam Saleh et Mufeed Hamzah.

They used different methods to detect minerals and lineament was one of the methods. It might hold an answer for you.

If you are able to prepare Shaded Relief Map (SRM) in GIS through SRTM or ASTER DEM data, then it would be very easy to interpret the lineaments / fault systems of an area. If the area is hilly, it would be apparent to keep >40 degree angle of Light Source with Elevation directions of at least North 10 degree or 55 degree or 85 degree towards East (generate a tleast 3 derivative SRMs or more than that) so that the linear features developed along low profiles along hills / valleys can be made visible. For plain area, the Light source angle can be kept at a lower elevation

Using Geomatica may be the simplest way, I think. I use Geomatica for lineament extractions!

you can use pci geometica software, there have a lineament extraction tool

Dear Imrana Aliyu,

You get a lot of useful responses before, from the experts… But sometimes you do not have suitable software, or you do not have suitable knowledge… In such a case it is important to have classical knowledge geology (geomorphology) and it comparing with satellite image or well-made geographical map you are able to determine manually the lineaments… To do it you need a good knowledge of geo-tectonical moving of the studied area too…

Regards

Laszlo

I would like to know how to make automatic lineament with arcgis or any software other than pci geomatics

While all of these suggestions are fine, my students and I use GoogleEarth. Take screen capture (jpg) of the area of interest in GoodleEarth, and insert that image into MS Powerpoint. Then use the strait line drawing tool to mark the lineaments. See the presentation by Patrisse Vasek and myself on my profile. These lineaments are easy to spot in Precambrin metamorhic and igneous rocks of the Black Hills , Cretaceous shales, and Cenozoic rerrestrial claystones, siltstones, and sandstones. The lineaments are visible despite being muted by soil, residuum, and a thin skiff of Quaternary sediments. The lineaments we look at are parallel sets of joints and faults, for the pupose of identifying potential pathways for toxic heavy metal and radionuclide contaminant transport. Good luck!

For automatic lineament extraction, you can achieve this by applying a combination of the following softwares: Arcmap 10.0+, ENVI 5.1, PCI GEOMATICA 2016, ROCKWORKS 16.

STEP1: Use ENVI software to perform principal component analysis (PCA) on the spectral image band of Landsat8.

STEP2: GEOMATICA is used to perform an automatic lineament delineation from the PC1.tiff generated from ENVI. This is done with the aid of lineament extraction algorithm in the Tool from toolbar

STEP3: ARCMAP is used for handling extracted lineament (splitting compound line into simple lines, editing lineament attribute, exporting lineament as cad file

STEP4: ROCKWORKS is used to process the exported lineament Cad file to determine the trend of the lineament and hence generating rose diagram.