Three-dimensional inversion of airborne time-domain electromagnetic data with applications to a porphyry deposit

Geophysics

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Yang, Dikun ^a   Oldenburg, Douglas W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

3D; Airborne survey; Electromagnetics; Inversion; Mining

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; MESH GENERATION; MINING;

AIRBORNE SURVEYS; BRITISH COLUMBIA , CANADA; ELECTROMAGNETICS; FREQUENCY AND TIME DOMAINS; INVERSION; LARGE-SCALE DISTRIBUTION; TIME DOMAIN ELECTROMAGNETICS; TIME-DOMAIN ELECTROMAGNETIC DATA;

SURVEYS;

AIRBORNE SURVEY; DATA INVERSION; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GEOMETRY; PORPHYRY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA;

EID: 84858603792     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/geo2011-0194.1     Document Type: Article

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