Multisource Geophysical Data and DEM for Lineaments Analysis of the Muglad Rift Basin Sudan

We use an integrated approach, using multi-source remote sensing and geophysical data in order to constrain the structure of the Muglad Basin in Sudan. Muglad Basin has a huge potential for oil exploration. DEM image processing, lineament analysis, interpretation of potential field data anomalies, interactive analysis and model fitting of geophysical data provide a characterization of structural domains. The structural content of surface data (DEM and potential field data) combined with 3D geophysical modelling allow us to produce a very precise model of the structure of the basin, prerequisite for the exploitation of potential oil. The DEM image and multisource geophysical data analysis indicated that the Muglad basin is controlled by two main structural trends: NW/SE and NE/SW. both trends represent remnants of reactivated Pan African structures through which the stress regimes generated during the opening of Atlantic and Indian Oceans are transferred into the interior