A novel ELF radar for major oil deposits

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 36-39

  Simpson, Jamesina J ^a,b   Taflove, Allen ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerial electromagnetic surveying; Earth; Electromagnetic sounding; Extremely low frequency (ELF); Finite difference time domain (FDTD); Oil field; SQUID magnetometer; U.S. Navy Wisconsin Transmitter Facility (WTF)

Indexed keywords

AERIAL ELECTROMAGNETIC SURVEYING; ELECTROMAGNETIC SOUNDING; EXTREMELY LOW FREQUENCY (ELF); FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN (FDTD); SQUID MAGNETOMETERS; U.S. NAVY WISCONSIN TRANSMITTER FACILITY (WTF);

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRUDE PETROLEUM; EARTH (PLANET); ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MAGNETOMETERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OIL FIELDS; SCALE (DEPOSITS); SQUIDS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

RADAR;

EID: 31144448950     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2005.856118     Document Type: Article

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