Quantifying AEM system characteristics using a ground loop

Geophysics

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Davis, Aaron C ^a   Macnae, James ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; GEOMETRY; SYSTEMATIC ERRORS;

AIRBORNE ELECTROMAGNETIC; CALIBRATION METHOD; GEOMETRIC ERRORS; GEOMETRY ERRORS; QUANTITATIVE INTERPRETATION; QUANTITATIVE MODELS; SYSTEM CHARACTERISTICS; SYSTEM GEOMETRY;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

ALTIMETRY; CALIBRATION; ELECTRICAL METHOD; ELECTROMAGNETIC METHOD; PHYSICAL PROPERTY; PREDICTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

AVES;

EID: 48449091093     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.2943189     Document Type: Article

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