Progressing from 1D to 2D and 3D near-surface airborne electromagnetic mapping with a multisensor, airborne sea-ice explorer

Geophysics

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Pfaffhuber, Andreas A ^a   Hendricks, Stefan ^b   Kvistedal, Yme A ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN GEOTECHNICAL INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^b ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Airborne survey; Electromagnetics; Modeling; Near surface; Sensors

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; INERTIAL NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; MAPPING; MODELS; OPTICAL RADAR; SENSORS; SURVEYS; TOPOGRAPHY;

AIRBORNE ELECTROMAGNETIC; AIRBORNE SURVEYS; ELECTROMAGNETICS; MULTI-FREQUENCY TRANSMITTERS; NEAR SURFACES; PARTS PER MILLIONS; RECEIVER SENSITIVITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL FINITE ELEMENT MODEL;

SEA ICE;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AIRBORNE SURVEY; DATA INTERPRETATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ELECTROMAGNETIC SURVEY; ERROR ANALYSIS; ICE COVER; ICE THICKNESS; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; POLAR REGION; SEA ICE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 84864101639     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/geo2011-0375.1     Document Type: Article

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