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In this article, Western Saudi Arabia underwent remote sensing investigation via Operational Land Imager (OLI), Advanced Land Observing Satellite/ Phased Array type L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (ALOS/PALSAR), Sentinal-1 and Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM). Imagetransformation and enhancement techniques such as Band ratios, principal component analysis (PCA), and Minimum Noise Fraction (MNF) were utilized. Applying Sentinel-1 and SRTM DEMs enhanced the perspective views of the terrain. The main results are highlighting of geologic rock units, geomorphic and structural features, and extraction and visualization of dominant lineaments. N-S foliations that are associated with folds N-S tight, isoclinal, and asymmetric (F1), NW-SE trending Najd system strike-slip faults and NNE-SSW, NE-SW NW-SE, and E-W Cenozoic faults are the major identified structural lineaments, which were analyzed and synthesized via rose diagrams. Visible Near Infra-Red/Short Wave Infra-Red (VNIR/SWIR) radar data are very important data set for water resources applications.

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