I have been trying to figure out a way to analyze lineaments for my senior thesis.
I am using ArcMap 10.1 and have a 60m DEM of my study area.
For simplification of my project, I basically want to use the DEM to extract breaklines, or lineaments, that may represent faults and zones of weakness in the topography, basically just lines.
I first looked into doing a normal slope/aspect tool on the DEM,and then got stuck on actually creating the lines and extracting them, but then my advisor redirected me and suggested using TINs.
I don't know much about using this type of processing, but I used the tool "Raster to TIN" and tried to use TINLine to extract lines in the data. But nothing happened. No lines appeared in the product.
I'm asking if there is a step that I have to complete to make these other tools work. Like my DEM did not fully turn into a TIN? and "Create TIN" does not accept the "Raster to TIN" product. How do you actually create a TIN so enable processing to work?
Any help would be appreciated.
Also, on a side note, if anyone out there knows how to possibly extract lines from a slope/aspect tool that would be helpful as well.
Just exploring my options.
Thank you.