VRGS publication list

Steven D. Andrews, Ed Keavney, David M. Hodgson, Jeff Peakall, Ian A. Kane, Bonita J. Barrett, Ian Sharp, and Mark A. Scott (2025)

Giant Injectite Complex Sand Body Architecture in the Late Jurassic East Greenland Rift

Journal of the Geological Society

Jacopo Natale, Enrico Cascella & Stefano Vitale. (2025)

Tracking the growth and deformation of fissure phreatomagmatic eruptions; insights from the ca. 3.9 ka Nisida eruption at Campi Flegrei Caldera, Southern Italy

Geological Society of America Bulletin

Charline Coudun, Paul Brichard, Christophe Basile, Sébastien Zaragosi, Vincent Marieu, Martin Patriat, Lies Loncke, (2025)

Quantitative structural geology in the deep ocean using photogrammetry: Implications for the polyphased tectonic evolution of the Buteur Ridge, French Guiana

Marine Geology

Alexandra Tamas, Robert E. Holdsworth, Dan M. Tamas, Edward D. Dempsey, Kit Hardman, Anna Bird, John R. Underhill, Dave McCarthy, Ken J. W. McCaffrey & David Selby (2025)

Unravelling the Sequence and Timing of Fault-Related Deformation in Superimposed Rift Basins, Inner Moray Firth, NE Scotland.

Lithosphere

C. López, C. Del Ventisette, M. Bonini, D. Montanari, D. Maestrelli, F. Martínez, M. Rioseco, R. Cisternas, S. Espinoza, B. Herrera, R. González, R. Riquelme & M. Navea (2025)

Formation of Contractional Wedge Structures in the Andean Forearc, Northern Chile: A Comparative Model From Physical Experiments Applied on the Eastern Domeyko Cordillera

Tectonics

Datta, D., Kala, S. and Khanna, P. (2025)

Characterizing Basalt Flow Heterogeneities through Outcrop Analogue for Potential Carbon Storage Site.

EAGE Workshop on Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) in Basalts

Kodal, A., Datta, D., Kala, S., Mandal, P.P. and Khanna, P. (2025)

3D Internal Lava Flow Architecture of Deccan Basalts with Implications for Carbon Storage

EAGE Workshop on Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) in Basalts

Y. Cherifi, E. Dujoncquoy, R. Labourdette, P. Razin and A. Bordenave (2025)

Drone-Based Photogrammetry on Continuous Outcrops: Advancing Understanding of Carbonate Reservoir Heterogeneity

86th EAGE Annual Conference & Exhibition, Jun 2025, Volume 2025, p.1 - 5

Perrine Mas, Raphaël Bourillot, Rémy Deschamps, Benjamin Brigaud, Bertrand Saint-Bezar, Philippe Razin, Eric Portier, Adrien Henry & Baptiste Hersant (2025)

Deciphering tidal signature in a fluvial-dominated delta using digital outcrop models (Roda Sandstone, Eocene, South Pyrenean Basin)

Preprint

Fatin Nadhirah Ahmad Pauzi, Mohd Ashraf Mohamad Ismail, Mazlina Razali, Nirandoal Cheng, Kensuke Date & Yasuhiro Yokota (2024)

Enhancing weathered slope stability assessment through the integration of slake durability index, elastic modulus of knocking ball, and electrical resistivity tomography.

Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Hong, P. (2024)

Outcrop Analogue for Basement Exploration in Songkhla Basin, Gulf of Thailand.

Bulletin of Earth Sciences of Thailand

Khanna, P., Ramdani, A.R., Gairola, G.S., Adigozalova, T., Hodgetts, D. and Vahrenkamp, V.C. (2024)

Undulating stratigraphy of a carbonate inner ramp lagoon and associated architectural facies heterogeneity: An example from the Late Jurassic Hanifa Formation, Central Saudi Arabia.

Sedimentology

Olivo, M.S., Isla, M.F., Moyano-Paz, D., López, L., Percudani, L.B., Zuazo, J.J., Gómez-Peral, L.E. and Poiré, D.G (2024)

Discerning coastal-process signatures and architectural styles in tidal barforms from the deltaic western Paleozoic Gondwana shoreline: new insights about the Balcarce Formation, Argentina.

Journal of Sedimentary Research

Fouke, K.W. and Kerans, C. (2024)

Evidence for a sea level fall during the last interglacial highstand on West Caicos, Turks and Caicos Islands.

Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology

Tusberti, F., Chimento, F., Brandano, M., Breda, A., Massironi, M., Luisa Perissinotto, M., Tomassetti, L. and Preto, N. (2024)

Geometry and stratigraphic relationships of lower Oligocene coral reefs in Lumignano (Berici Hills, northern Italy)

Italian Journal of Geosciences

Sola, F., Puga‐Bernabéu, Á. and Braga, J.C. (2024)

Tidally influenced depositsin the Río Alías Strait connecting a marginal basinwith the Mediterranean Sea (Pliocene, South-East Spain).

The Depositional Record

S. S. Ortiz, D. G. Lowe (2024)

Stratal evolution and provenance of a precambrian delta in a tectonically active terrane: The lower Signal Hill Group, Avalon Zone, Newfoundland.

Precambrian Research

M Hauzan Nabhan and M Haris Miftakhul Fajar and Wien Lestari (2024)

Analysis of Geological Structure based on 3D Virtual Outcrop Model and Physical Properties of Rocks in Wringinanom District, Gresik Regency

IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental ScienceVolume 1307

Liang, B., Liu, Y., Su, Z., Zhang, N., Li, S. and Feng, W. (2023)

A Workflow for Interpretation of Fracture Characteristics Based on Digital Outcrop Models: A Case Study on Ebian XianFeng Profile in Sichuan Basin

LithosphereVolume 2022

Betlem, P., Rodés, N., Birchall, T., Dahlin, A., Smyrak-Sikora, A., and Senger, K. (2023)

Svalbox Digital Model Database: A geoscientific window into the High Arctic

GeosphereVolume 19

Sangsrichan, K.,Manopkawee, P. and Kanthata, S. (2023)

3D Digital Outcrop Model for Geological Structure Analysis in Mae Moh Coal Mine, Lampang Province, Thailand

International Journal of GeoinformaticsVolume 19

Utley, T. A. G., Holdsworth, R. E., Walker, R. J., Dempsey, E. D., McCaffrey, K. J. W., Dichiarante, A., and Jones, T. L. (2023)

An onshore-offshore interpretation of structures in the Devonian rocks of the Pentland Firth, Scotland using high resolution bathymetry and drone-enabled field observations

Journal of Structural GeologyVolume 174

Tala Maria Aabø, Simon John Oldfield, Hemin Yuan, Janina Kammann, Erik Vest Sørensen, Lars Stemmerik & Lars Nielsen, (2023)

Establishing a High Resolution 3D Fracture Dataset in Chalk: Possibilities and Obstacles Working with Outcrop Data

In: Welch, M.J., Lüthje, M. (eds) Geomechanical Controls on Fracture Development in Chalk and Marl in the Danish North Sea. Petroleum Engineering. Springer, Cham.

Matteo Massironi (2023)

GEOPLANET IO8 Geological 3D Model : Bletterbach gorge right slope (Aldino-Trentino Alto Adige)

Funded By: H2020-Erasmus + Strategic Partnership project for higher education (KA203) - 2020-2023

Ángel Puga-Bernabéu, Juan Carlos Braga, Julio Aguirre and José Manuel Martín (2023)

Sedimentary dynamics and topographic controls on the tidal-dominated Zagra Strait, Early Tortonian, Betic Cordillera, Spain

Geological Society, London, Special PublicationsVolume 523

Utley, T.A.G. and Holdsworth, R.E. and Blackbourn, G.A. and Dempsey, E. and Strachan, R.A. and McCaffrey, K.J.W. and Morton, A.C. and Bird, A.F. and Jones, R.R. and Saßnowski, A. and Walker, R.J. (2023)

The strike-slip influenced stratigraphic and structural development of the Foula Sandstone Group, Shetland: implications for offshore Devonian basin development in the northern UKCS

Journal of the Geological Society

Cross, S., Pettigrew, R. P., Priddy, C. L., Zuchuat, V., Dodd, T. J. H., Mitten, A. J. & Clarke, S. M. (2023)

The sedimentological expression of transgression–regression cycles upon aeolian–marine margins

The Depositional Record

Kalifi, A., Sorrel, P., Leloup, P.H., Galy, A., Spina, V., Huet, B., Russo, S., Pittet, B. and Rubino, J., (2023)

Tectonic control on the palaeogeographical evolution of the Miocene Seaway along the Western Alpine foreland basin

Geological Society, London, Special PublicationsVolume 523

Tămaș, A., Holdsworth, R., Underhill, J.R., Tămaș, D.M., Dempsey, E., Hardman, K., Bird, A., McCarthy, D., McCaffrey, K.J.W. and Selby, D. (2022)

New onshore insights into the role of structural inheritance during Mesozoic opening of the Inner Moray Firth Basin, Scotland

Journal of the Geological SocietyVolume 179

Aydin Shahtakhtinskiy and Shuhab Khan (2022)

3D stratigraphic mapping and reservoir architecture of the Balakhany Suite, Upper Productive Series, using UAV photogrammetry: Yasamal Valley, Azerbaijan

Marine and Petroleum GeologyVolume 145

Jude O. Ojero and David Hodgetts and Brian Burnham (2022)

Employing a statistical framework to constrain orientation measurement inaccuracies from digital outcrop models: Insights from sandstone intrusions

Journal of Structural GeologyVolume 157

Ahmad Ramdani and Pankaj Khanna and Sander {De Jong} and Gaurav Siddharth Gairola and Sherif Hanafy and Volker Vahrenkamp (2022)

Three-dimensional morphometric analysis and statistical distribution of the Early Kimmeridgian Hanifa Formation stromatoporoid/coral buildups, central Saudi Arabia

Marine and Petroleum GeologyVolume 146

Thiele, Samuel T. and Bnoulkacem, Zakaria and Lorenz, Sandra and Bordenave, Aurélien and Menegoni, Niccolò and Madriz, Yuleika and Dujoncquoy, Emmanuel and Gloaguen, Richard and Kenter, Jeroen (2022)

Mineralogical mapping with accurately corrected shortwave infrared hyperspectral data acquired obliquely from uavs

Remote SensingVolume 14

Laura Tomassetti, Marco Brandano and Guillem Mateu-Vicens (2022)

3D modelling of the upper Tortonian-lower Messinian shallow ramp carbonates of the Hyblean domain (Central Mediterranean, Faro Santa Croce, Sicily)

Marine and Petroleum GeologyVolume 135

Tămaș, D.M., Tămaș, A., Barabasch, J., Rowan, M.G., Schleder, Z., Krézsek, C. and Urai, J.L. (2021)

Low-angle shear within the exposed Mânzălești diapir, Romania: Salt decapitation in the Eastern Carpathians fold-and-thrust belt.

TectonicsVolume 40

Adamuszek, M. and Tămaș, D. M. and Barabasch, J. and Urai, J. L. (2021)

Rheological stratification in impure rock salt during long-term creep: morphology, microstructure, and numerical models of multilayer folds in the Ocnele Mari salt mine, Romania

Solid EarthVolume 12

Luis Miguel Yeste and Ricardo Palomino and Augusto Nicolás Varela and Neil David McDougall and César Viseras (2021)

Integrating outcrop and subsurface data to improve the predictability of geobodies distribution using a 3D training image: A case study of a Triassic Channel – Crevasse-splay complex

Marine and Petroleum GeologyVolume 129

Bordenave, A. and Dujoncquoy, E. and Bourillot, R. and Kenter, J. and Champagne, J. and Daguinos, P. (2021)

UAV-based 3D outcrop modeling: Stratigraphic mapping of a seismic scale Jurassic oolitic ramp, Amellago cliff, Morocco

2nd EAGE Workhop on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Thomas, Hadrien and Brigaud, Benjamin and Blaise, Thomas and Saint-Bezar, Bertrand and Zordan, Elodie and Zeyen, Hermann and Andrieu, Simon and Vincent, Benoît and Chirol, Hugo and Portier, Eric and Mouche, Emmanuel (2021)

Contribution of drone photogrammetry to 3D outcrop modeling of facies, porosity, and permeability heterogeneities in carbonate reservoirs (Paris Basin, Middle Jurassic)

Marine and Petroleum GeologyVolume 123

Brian S. Burnham, Rhodri M. Jerrett, David Hodgetts, and Stephen S.Flint, (2020)

Discriminating stacked distributary channel from palaeovalley fill sand bodies in foreland basin settings

Sedimentary GeologyVolume 398

Osman, M. and Cline, J. (2020)

Advances in the digital outcrop modeling software and workflow: Examples and lessons from outcrops: Saudi Arabia

1st EAGE Digitalization Conference and Exhibition

Priddy, Charlotte L. and Pringle, Jamie K. and Clarke, Stuart M. and Pettigrew, Ross P. (2019)

Application of photogrammetry to generate quantitative geobody data in ephemeral fluvial systems

Photogrammetric RecordVolume 34

Marini, Mattia and Porta, Giovanna Della and Felletti, Fabrizio and Grasso, Benedetta Marcella and Franzini, Marica and Casella, Vittorio (2019)

Insight into heterogeneous calcite cementation of turbidite channel-fills from UAV photogrammetry

Geosciences (Switzerland)Volume 9

Burnham, Brian S. and Hodgetts, David (2019)

Quantifying spatial and architectural relationships from fluvial outcrops

GeosphereVolume 15

T. Drews and G. Miernik and K. Anders and B. Höfle and J. Profe and A. Emmerich and T. Bechstädt (2018)

Validation of fracture data recognition in rock masses by automated plane detection in 3D point clouds

International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining SciencesVolume 109

Hodgetts, D. and Burnham, B.S. (2016)

Improving reservoir models through combining digital outcrop data and forward modelling

78th EAGE Conference and Exhibition 2016: Efficient Use of Technology - Unlocking Potential

Rarity, F. and Van Lanen, X.M.T. and Hodgetts, D. and Gawthorpe, R.L. and Wilson, P. and Fabuel-Perez, I. and Redfern, J. (2013)

LiDAR-based digital outcrops for sedimentological analysis: Workflows and techniques

Geological Society Special PublicationVolume 387

van Lanen, X.M.T. and Hodgetts, D. and Redfern, J. and Fabuel-Perez, I. (2009)

Applications of digital outcrop models: Two fluvial case studies from the Triassic Wolfville Fm., Canada and Oukaimeden Sandstone Fm., Morocco

Geological JournalVolume 44

Hodgetts, D. and Gawthorpe, R.L. and Wilson, P. and Rarity, F. (2007)

Integrating digital and traditional field techniques using virtual reality geological studio (VRGS)

69th European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers Conference and Exhibition 2007: Securing The Future. Incorporating SPE EUROPEC 2007Volume 1

PUBLICATIONS

Scientific papers using VRGS.

VRGS is actively used in academia as a research tool. Here are some of the peer-reviewed papers which utilise VRGS for interpreting digital outcrop data.

Publications

Latest publications featuring VRGS

Steven D. Andrews, Ed Keavney, David M. Hodgson, Jeff Peakall, Ian A. Kane, Bonita J. Barrett, Ian Sharp, and Mark A. Scott (2025)

Giant Injectite Complex Sand Body Architecture in the Late Jurassic East Greenland Rift

Jacopo Natale, Enrico Cascella & Stefano Vitale. (2025)

Tracking the growth and deformation of fissure phreatomagmatic eruptions; insights from the ca. 3.9 ka Nisida eruption at Campi Flegrei Caldera, Southern Italy

Charline Coudun, Paul Brichard, Christophe Basile, Sébastien Zaragosi, Vincent Marieu, Martin Patriat, Lies Loncke, (2025)

Quantitative structural geology in the deep ocean using photogrammetry: Implications for the polyphased tectonic evolution of the Buteur Ridge, French Guiana

Alexandra Tamas, Robert E. Holdsworth, Dan M. Tamas, Edward D. Dempsey, Kit Hardman, Anna Bird, John R. Underhill, Dave McCarthy, Ken J. W. McCaffrey & David Selby (2025)

Unravelling the Sequence and Timing of Fault-Related Deformation in Superimposed Rift Basins, Inner Moray Firth, NE Scotland.

C. López, C. Del Ventisette, M. Bonini, D. Montanari, D. Maestrelli, F. Martínez, M. Rioseco, R. Cisternas, S. Espinoza, B. Herrera, R. González, R. Riquelme & M. Navea (2025)

Formation of Contractional Wedge Structures in the Andean Forearc, Northern Chile: A Comparative Model From Physical Experiments Applied on the Eastern Domeyko Cordillera

Datta, D., Kala, S. and Khanna, P. (2025)

Characterizing Basalt Flow Heterogeneities through Outcrop Analogue for Potential Carbon Storage Site.

Kodal, A., Datta, D., Kala, S., Mandal, P.P. and Khanna, P. (2025)

3D Internal Lava Flow Architecture of Deccan Basalts with Implications for Carbon Storage

Y. Cherifi, E. Dujoncquoy, R. Labourdette, P. Razin and A. Bordenave (2025)

Drone-Based Photogrammetry on Continuous Outcrops: Advancing Understanding of Carbonate Reservoir Heterogeneity

Perrine Mas, Raphaël Bourillot, Rémy Deschamps, Benjamin Brigaud, Bertrand Saint-Bezar, Philippe Razin, Eric Portier, Adrien Henry & Baptiste Hersant (2025)

Deciphering tidal signature in a fluvial-dominated delta using digital outcrop models (Roda Sandstone, Eocene, South Pyrenean Basin)

Fatin Nadhirah Ahmad Pauzi, Mohd Ashraf Mohamad Ismail, Mazlina Razali, Nirandoal Cheng, Kensuke Date & Yasuhiro Yokota (2024)

Enhancing weathered slope stability assessment through the integration of slake durability index, elastic modulus of knocking ball, and electrical resistivity tomography.

Hong, P. (2024)

Outcrop Analogue for Basement Exploration in Songkhla Basin, Gulf of Thailand.

Khanna, P., Ramdani, A.R., Gairola, G.S., Adigozalova, T., Hodgetts, D. and Vahrenkamp, V.C. (2024)

Undulating stratigraphy of a carbonate inner ramp lagoon and associated architectural facies heterogeneity: An example from the Late Jurassic Hanifa Formation, Central Saudi Arabia.

Olivo, M.S., Isla, M.F., Moyano-Paz, D., López, L., Percudani, L.B., Zuazo, J.J., Gómez-Peral, L.E. and Poiré, D.G (2024)

Discerning coastal-process signatures and architectural styles in tidal barforms from the deltaic western Paleozoic Gondwana shoreline: new insights about the Balcarce Formation, Argentina.

Fouke, K.W. and Kerans, C. (2024)

Evidence for a sea level fall during the last interglacial highstand on West Caicos, Turks and Caicos Islands.

Tusberti, F., Chimento, F., Brandano, M., Breda, A., Massironi, M., Luisa Perissinotto, M., Tomassetti, L. and Preto, N. (2024)

Geometry and stratigraphic relationships of lower Oligocene coral reefs in Lumignano (Berici Hills, northern Italy)

Sola, F., Puga‐Bernabéu, Á. and Braga, J.C. (2024)

Tidally influenced depositsin the Río Alías Strait connecting a marginal basinwith the Mediterranean Sea (Pliocene, South-East Spain).

S. S. Ortiz, D. G. Lowe (2024)

Stratal evolution and provenance of a precambrian delta in a tectonically active terrane: The lower Signal Hill Group, Avalon Zone, Newfoundland.

M Hauzan Nabhan and M Haris Miftakhul Fajar and Wien Lestari (2024)

Analysis of Geological Structure based on 3D Virtual Outcrop Model and Physical Properties of Rocks in Wringinanom District, Gresik Regency

Liang, B., Liu, Y., Su, Z., Zhang, N., Li, S. and Feng, W. (2023)

A Workflow for Interpretation of Fracture Characteristics Based on Digital Outcrop Models: A Case Study on Ebian XianFeng Profile in Sichuan Basin

Betlem, P., Rodés, N., Birchall, T., Dahlin, A., Smyrak-Sikora, A., and Senger, K. (2023)

Svalbox Digital Model Database: A geoscientific window into the High Arctic

Sangsrichan, K.,Manopkawee, P. and Kanthata, S. (2023)

3D Digital Outcrop Model for Geological Structure Analysis in Mae Moh Coal Mine, Lampang Province, Thailand

Utley, T. A. G., Holdsworth, R. E., Walker, R. J., Dempsey, E. D., McCaffrey, K. J. W., Dichiarante, A., and Jones, T. L. (2023)

An onshore-offshore interpretation of structures in the Devonian rocks of the Pentland Firth, Scotland using high resolution bathymetry and drone-enabled field observations

Tala Maria Aabø, Simon John Oldfield, Hemin Yuan, Janina Kammann, Erik Vest Sørensen, Lars Stemmerik & Lars Nielsen, (2023)

Establishing a High Resolution 3D Fracture Dataset in Chalk: Possibilities and Obstacles Working with Outcrop Data

Matteo Massironi (2023)

GEOPLANET IO8 Geological 3D Model : Bletterbach gorge right slope (Aldino-Trentino Alto Adige)

Ángel Puga-Bernabéu, Juan Carlos Braga, Julio Aguirre and José Manuel Martín (2023)

Sedimentary dynamics and topographic controls on the tidal-dominated Zagra Strait, Early Tortonian, Betic Cordillera, Spain

Utley, T.A.G. and Holdsworth, R.E. and Blackbourn, G.A. and Dempsey, E. and Strachan, R.A. and McCaffrey, K.J.W. and Morton, A.C. and Bird, A.F. and Jones, R.R. and Saßnowski, A. and Walker, R.J. (2023)

The strike-slip influenced stratigraphic and structural development of the Foula Sandstone Group, Shetland: implications for offshore Devonian basin development in the northern UKCS

Cross, S., Pettigrew, R. P., Priddy, C. L., Zuchuat, V., Dodd, T. J. H., Mitten, A. J. & Clarke, S. M. (2023)

The sedimentological expression of transgression–regression cycles upon aeolian–marine margins

Kalifi, A., Sorrel, P., Leloup, P.H., Galy, A., Spina, V., Huet, B., Russo, S., Pittet, B. and Rubino, J., (2023)

Tectonic control on the palaeogeographical evolution of the Miocene Seaway along the Western Alpine foreland basin

Tămaș, A., Holdsworth, R., Underhill, J.R., Tămaș, D.M., Dempsey, E., Hardman, K., Bird, A., McCarthy, D., McCaffrey, K.J.W. and Selby, D. (2022)

New onshore insights into the role of structural inheritance during Mesozoic opening of the Inner Moray Firth Basin, Scotland

Aydin Shahtakhtinskiy and Shuhab Khan (2022)

3D stratigraphic mapping and reservoir architecture of the Balakhany Suite, Upper Productive Series, using UAV photogrammetry: Yasamal Valley, Azerbaijan

Jude O. Ojero and David Hodgetts and Brian Burnham (2022)

Employing a statistical framework to constrain orientation measurement inaccuracies from digital outcrop models: Insights from sandstone intrusions

Ahmad Ramdani and Pankaj Khanna and Sander {De Jong} and Gaurav Siddharth Gairola and Sherif Hanafy and Volker Vahrenkamp (2022)

Three-dimensional morphometric analysis and statistical distribution of the Early Kimmeridgian Hanifa Formation stromatoporoid/coral buildups, central Saudi Arabia

Thiele, Samuel T. and Bnoulkacem, Zakaria and Lorenz, Sandra and Bordenave, Aurélien and Menegoni, Niccolò and Madriz, Yuleika and Dujoncquoy, Emmanuel and Gloaguen, Richard and Kenter, Jeroen (2022)

Mineralogical mapping with accurately corrected shortwave infrared hyperspectral data acquired obliquely from uavs

Laura Tomassetti, Marco Brandano and Guillem Mateu-Vicens (2022)

3D modelling of the upper Tortonian-lower Messinian shallow ramp carbonates of the Hyblean domain (Central Mediterranean, Faro Santa Croce, Sicily)

Tămaș, D.M., Tămaș, A., Barabasch, J., Rowan, M.G., Schleder, Z., Krézsek, C. and Urai, J.L. (2021)

Low-angle shear within the exposed Mânzălești diapir, Romania: Salt decapitation in the Eastern Carpathians fold-and-thrust belt.

Adamuszek, M. and Tămaș, D. M. and Barabasch, J. and Urai, J. L. (2021)

Rheological stratification in impure rock salt during long-term creep: morphology, microstructure, and numerical models of multilayer folds in the Ocnele Mari salt mine, Romania

Luis Miguel Yeste and Ricardo Palomino and Augusto Nicolás Varela and Neil David McDougall and César Viseras (2021)

Integrating outcrop and subsurface data to improve the predictability of geobodies distribution using a 3D training image: A case study of a Triassic Channel – Crevasse-splay complex

Bordenave, A. and Dujoncquoy, E. and Bourillot, R. and Kenter, J. and Champagne, J. and Daguinos, P. (2021)

VRGS is actively used in academia as a research tool.
Here are some of the peer-reviewed papers which utilise VRGS for interpreting digital outcrop data.

S. S. Ortiz, D. G. Lowe (2024)