An integrated processing scheme for high-resolution airborne electromagnetic surveys, the SkyTEM system

Exploration Geophysics

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 184-192

  Auken, Esben ^a   Christiansen, Anders Vest ^b   Westergaard, Joakim H ^c   Kirkegaard, Casper ^a   Foged, Nikolaj ^a   Viezzoli, Andrea ^d  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

^c ORBICON   (Denmark)

^d Aarhus Geophysics ^*  (Denmark)

Author keywords

Airborne electromagnetic; Altitude processing; Constrained inversion; SkyTEM.

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE ELECTROMAGNETIC; AIRBORNE SYSTEMS; ALTITUDE DATA; ALTITUDE PROCESSING; CONSTRAINED INVERSION; CURRENT TURNS; DATA SETS; GEOMETRICAL CORRECTION; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGE; LATERALLY CONSTRAINED INVERSIONS; MAN-MADE STRUCTURES; PROCESSING PROCEDURES; RECURSIVE FILTERING; SKYTEM.; SMOOTH MODELS; TRANSIENT ELECTROMAGNETIC SYSTEMS; VOLTAGE DATA;

ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROMAGNETIC PROSPECTING; ELECTROMAGNETISM; TRANSMITTERS;

MAGNETIC MATERIALS;

AIRBORNE SURVEY; DATA SET; ELECTROMAGNETIC METHOD; GEOPHYSICAL SURVEY; NUMERICAL MODEL;

EID: 67949109633     PISSN: 08123985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/EG08128     Document Type: Article

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