S. I. SCJGE-1 2019 Mapping lineament features using GIS approaches: case study of Neoproterozoic basement rocks in the South-Eastern Desert of Egypt Ahmed Abdelhalim 1 & Hatem Aboelkhair 2 & Zakaria Hamimi 3 & Majid Al-Gabali 4 Received: 26 February 2020 /Accepted: 2 July 2020 # Saudi Society for Geosciences 2020 Abstract In geosciences, field observations, and survey, remote sensing applications and data analysis still need to find out a seamless approach of integration, interlinking, and storing environment. Most applications of geomatic tools in geological studies (mainly in southern countries) focus on getting information of the real world from satellite data, but do not specify the concept of the way to represent them. However, heterogeneity exists in data form of different geological components (e.g., petrography and structure analysis), measurements, spatial analysis, and classification, which make the property and relation in the perspective of integra- tion and management non-trivial aspect. However, this paper is an attempt to figure out a geo-data management approach by using the geo-information system (GIS). The case study is South Eastern Desert, Egypt, which built up of Neoproterozoic basement rocks and experienced successive deformations. We proposed to capture different geological data and processed digital images, together with conceptual model, to facilitate a geo-spatial framework and improve the exploration and detection of lithologies, lineaments features, and find out its interlink. Therefore, the lineament number percentage and the lineament length percentage could be used as significance of rock unit chronology, where the digital foot prints of Neoproterozoic basement rocks were created. Keywords Conceptual model . GIS applications . Digital geological data . Virtual reality . Eastern Desert of Egypt . Neoproterozoic basement Introduction The crystalline basement rocks in the Arabian–Nubian Shield represent the northern extension of the East African Orogen. It is formed during the closure of Mozambique Ocean and con- sequent collision of East and West Gondwana by plate tectonic accretionary events at about 550 Ma (Johnson et al. 2011). According to tectonic evolution, the Precambrian rocks of the Eastern Desert have been divided by two major structural discontinuities that separate it into three tectonic domains; the first is South Eastern Desert (SED) that lies south of latitude 24° 30′ N, North Eastern Desert (NED) lies north of latitude 26° 30′N, and Central Eastern Desert (CED) that lies between them. The border between the CED and the SED represents a major shear zone; on the other hand, the border between the NED and CED is an intrusive contact (Stern and Hedge 1985). The SED is primarily gneissic terrane with huge amounts of arc-type volcanic as well as tuffaceous volcanogenic sedi- ments and pyroclastics. This is in addition to the late- to post- tectonic granitoids. Also, it comprises frequent amounts of the other intracratonic rock associations like the Dokhan-type vol- canic with scarce occurrences of the Hammamat sedimentary rocks (Abdel-Meguid 1992). However, the Neoproterozoic tectonic events and major shear zones in the Egyptian This article is part of the Topical Collection on Current Advances in Geological Research of Egypt * Ahmed Abdelhalim aahalim2000@gmail.com 1 Department of Geology, Faulty of Science, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt 2 Geology Department, Faculty of Science, and Center of Space Research and Applications (CSRA), Damietta University, New Damietta, Egypt 3 Department of Geology, Faulty of Science, Benha University, Banha 13518, Egypt 4 Department of Environmental and Earth Sciences, Dhamar University, Dhamar, Yemen Arabian Journal of Geosciences (2020) 13:651 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12517-020-05673-4