Metalliferous mining geophysics-State of the art in the last decade of the 20th century and the beginning of the new millennium

Geophysics

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 964-978

  Nabighian, Misac N ^a   Asten, Michael W ^b  

^a Advanced Coatings and Surface Engineering Laboratory   (United States)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; GAMMA RAYS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; GRAVITATION; MINING; OIL FIELDS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS; ANTENNAS; APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA REDUCTION; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING; GEOPHYSICS; METADATA; MINERAL EXPLORATION; MINERALS; OIL FIELD EQUIPMENT; ORE DEPOSITS; PETROLEUM PROSPECTING; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SEISMOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SURVEYS; MINERAL INDUSTRY;

BASEMENT CONDUCTORS; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; FREQUENCY-DOMAIN DATA; GEOMETRICAL INFORMATIONS; GEOPHYSICAL TECHNIQUES; SEISMIC REFLECTION METHOD; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; TIME DOMAIN ELECTROMAGNETICS; TRANSMITTER FREQUENCIES;

GEOPHYSICS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

GEOPHYSICS; METAL; MINERAL DEPOSIT; MINING; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 0036565203     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1484538     Document Type: Article

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