3D inversion of airborne electromagnetic data

Geophysics

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Cox, Leif H ^a   Wilson, Glenn A ^a   Zhdanov, Michael S ^a,b  

^a TechnoImaging   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

3D; Airborne survey; Electromagnetics; Inversion; Modeling

Indexed keywords

COSINE TRANSFORMS; FIXED WINGS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MAGNETOMETERS; MODELS; SURVEYS;

AIRBORNE ELECTROMAGNETIC; AIRBORNE SURVEYS; ELECTROMAGNETICS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN RESPONSE; INTERPRETATION METHODS; INVERSION; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; TIME DOMAIN SYSTEMS;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

AIRBORNE SURVEY; ELECTROMAGNETIC METHOD; INVERSE PROBLEM; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

CANADA; ONTARIO [CANADA];

EID: 84864102082     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/geo2011-0370.1     Document Type: Article

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