Remote Sensing Methods
Remote sensing methods use satellites and cameras in aeroplanes (and
recently on unmanned drones) to detect and monitor an area’s physical
characteristics with different wavelength spectrum segments. The methods
have been applied in weather forecasting (Alley et al., 2019 ),
monitoring forests (Huete, 2012 ), agriculture
(Bandyopadhyay et al., 2009 ), land cover and land use studies
(Alqurashi and Kumar, 2013 ), and impact crater investigations
(Koeberl, 2004 ). Wulf et al. (2019 ) compared
terrestrial impact craters with Martian impact craters using the
Bosumtwi impact crater as a case study. They combined remote sensing and
geomorphological analysis with landform evolution modelling. The authors
realised that they could not explain the current morphology of the
Bosumtwi impact crater using a model dependent on the erosion of
lunar-like impact craters. On the other hand, similarities with Mars,
like impact craters, exist.Theilen-Willige(2021 ) were able to derive further geomorphological and
structural knowledge about the Bosumtwi impact crater, such as new
morphometric maps to visualise concentric and radial drainage and valley
pattern surrounding the impact crater.