Large-scale 3D inversion of potential field data

Geophysical Prospecting

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1186-1199

  Čuma, Martin ^a,b   Wilson, Glenn A ^b   Zhdanov, Michael S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b TechnoImaging   (United States)

Author keywords

Footprint; Inversion; Parallelization

Indexed keywords

3D INVERSION; 3D MODELLING; EARTH MODELS; FOOTPRINT; GEOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION; GRAVITY GRADIOMETRY; ILL POSED; INFINITE NUMBERS; INVERSION; MAGNETIC DATA; MAGNETIC SURVEYS; ONTARIO , CANADA; PARALLEL COMPUTER; PARALLELIZATIONS; POTENTIAL FIELD; SENSITIVITY MATRIX; SURVEY AREA; VERY LARGE DATUM;

CONJUGATE GRADIENT METHOD; MAGNETIC STORAGE; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; SURVEYS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

DATA ACQUISITION; DATA INTERPRETATION; DATA INVERSION; GRAVITY SURVEY; MAGNETIC SURVEY; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

CANADA; ONTARIO [CANADA]; TIMMINS;

EID: 84867649839     PISSN: 00168025     EISSN: 13652478     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2478.2011.01052.x     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. Beiki M. 2010. Analytic signals of gravity gradient tensor and their application to estimate source location. Geophysics 75, I59-I74, doi: 10.1190/1.3493639.
2. Beiki M. and Pedersen L.B. 2010. Eigenvector analysis of gravity gradient tensor to locate geologic bodies. Geophysics 75, I37-I49, doi: 10.1190/1.3484098.
3. Bhattacharyya B.K. 1980. A generalized multibody model for inversion of magnetic anomalies. Geophysics 29, 517-531, doi: 10.1190/1.1441081.
4. Cox L.H., Wilson G.A. and Zhdanov M.S. 2010. 3D inversion of airborne electromagnetic data using a moving footprint. Exploration Geophysics 41, 250-259, doi: 10.1071/EG10003.
5. Davis K. and Li Y. 2011. Fast solution of geophysical inversion using adaptive mesh, space-filling curves and wavelet compression. Geophysical Journal International 185, 157-166, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2011.04929.x.
6. Dransfield M. 2010. Potential field searchlights. Presented at the EAGE Conference and Exhibition, Barcelona.
7. Dransfield M. and Zeng Y. 2009. Airborne gravity gradiometry: Terrain corrections and elevation error. Geophysics 74, I37-I42, doi: 10.1190/1.3170688.
8. Fedi M. 2007. DEXP: A fast method to determine the depth to the sources of potential fields. Geophysics 72, L1-L11, doi: 10.1190/1.239945215.
9. Hornby P., Boschetti F. and Horowitz F.G. 2002. Analysis of potential field data in the wavelet domain. Geophysical Journal International 137, 175-196, doi: 10.1046/j.1365-246x.1999.00788.x.
10. Lee J.B. 2001. FALCON gravity gradiometer technology. Exploration Geophysics 32, 247-250, doi: 10.1071/EG01247.
11. Li Y. 2001. 3-D inversion of gravity gradiometry data. Annual Meeting, SEG, Expanded Abstracts, 1470-1473, doi: 10.1190/1.1816383.
12. Li X. and Chouteau M. 1998. Three-dimensional gravity modeling in all space. Surveys in Geophysics 19, 339-368, doi: 10.1023/A:1006554408567.
13. Li Y. and Oldenburg D.W. 1996. 3-D inversion of magnetic data. Geophysics 61, 394-408, doi: 10.1190/1.1443968.
14. Li Y. and Oldenburg D.W. 1998. 3-D inversion of gravity data. Geophysics 63, 109-119, doi: 10.1190/1.1444302.
15. Li Y. and Oldenburg D.W. 2003. Fast inversion of large-scale magnetic data using wavelet transforms and a logarithmic barrier method. Geophysical Journal International 152, 251-265, doi: 10.1046/j.1365-246X.2003.01766.
16. Okabe M. 1979. Analytical expressions for gravity anomalies due to homogeneous polyhedral bodies and translations into magnetic anomalies. Geophysics 64, 730-741, doi: 10.1190/1.1440973.
17. Phillips N., Nguyen T.H., Thomson V., Oldenburg D. and Kowalczyk P. 2010. 3D inversion modelling, integration, and visualization of airborne gravity, magnetic, and electromagnetic data - The QUEST Project. Presented at the International Workshop on Electrical, Gravity and Magnetic Methods, Capri.
18. Pilkington M. 1997. 3-D magnetic imaging using conjugate gradients. Geophysics 62, 1132-1142, doi: 10.1190/1.1444214.
19. Portniaguine O. and Zhdanov M.S. 1999. Focusing geophysical inversion images. Geophysics 64, 874-887, doi: 10.1190/1.1444596.
20. Portniaguine O. and Zhdanov M.S. 2002. 3-D magnetic inversion with data compression and image focusing. Geophysics 67, 1532-1541, doi: 10.1190/1.1512749.
21. Salem A. and Ravat D. 2003. A combined analytic signal and Euler method (AN-EUL) for automatic interpretation of magnetic data. Geophysics 68, 1952-1961, doi: 10.1190/1.1635049.
22. Schmidt P., Clark D., Leslie K.E., Bick M., Tilbrook D.L. and Foley C.P. 2004. GETMAG - A SQUID magnetic tensor gradiometer for mineral and oil exploration. Exploration Geophysics 35, 297-305, doi: 10.1071/EG04297.
23. Snyder D.B., Bleeker W., Reed L.E., Ayer J.A., Houlé M.G. and Bateman R. 2008. Tectonic and metallogenic implications of regional seismic profiles in the Timmins Mining Camp. Economic Geology 103, 1135-1150, doi: 10.2113/gsecongeo.103.6.1135.
24. Thompson D.T. 1982. EULDPH: A new technique for making computer assisted depth estimates from magnetic data. Geophysics 47, 31-37, doi: 10.1190/1.1441278.
25. Wilson G.A., Čuma M. and Zhdanov M. 2011. Massively parallel 3D inversion of gravity and gravity gradiometry data. Preview 152, 29-34, doi: 10.1071/PV2011n152p29.
26. Zhdanov M. 1988. Integral Transforms in Geophysics. Springer-Verlag.
27. Zhdanov M.S. 2002. Geophysical Inverse Theory and Regularization Problems. Elsevier.
28. Zhdanov M. 2009. New advances in 3D regularized inversion of gravity and electromagnetic data. Geophysical Prospecting 57 (4), 463-478, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2478.2008.00763.x.
29. Zhdanov M.S., Ellis R.G. and Mukherjee S. 2004. Regularized focusing inversion of 3-D gravity tensor data. Geophysics 69, 925-937, doi: 10.1190/1.1778236.
30. Zhdanov M.S., Smith R.B., Gribenko A., Čuma M. and Green A.M. 2011. Three-dimensional inversion of large-scale EarthScope magnetotelluric data based on the integral equation method - Geoelectrical imaging of the Yellowstone conductive mantle plume. Geophysical Research Letters 38, L08307, doi: 10.1029/2011GL046953.