Processing and inversion of commercial helicopter time-domain electromagnetic data for environmental assessments and geologic and hydrologic mapping

GEOPHYSICS

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Podgorski, Joel E ^a   Auken, Esben ^b   Schamper, Cyril ^b   Christiansen, Anders Vest ^b   Kalscheuer, Thomas ^a   Green, Alan G ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; MAPPING; MINERAL EXPLORATION; SURVEYS; SYSTEMATIC ERRORS;

COMMERCIAL HELICOPTERS; CONSTRAINED INVERSIONS; COST-EFFECTIVE MEANS; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; MULTIPLE PROCESSING; TIME DOMAIN ELECTROMAGNETICS; TIME-DOMAIN ELECTROMAGNETIC DATA; TRANSMITTER AND RECEIVER;

TRANSMITTERS;

CALIBRATION; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA INVERSION; DATA SET; ELECTROMAGNETIC SURVEY; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ERROR ANALYSIS; GEOLOGICAL MAPPING; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; DATA PROCESSING; DATA QUALITY; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING;

EID: 84886628612     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/geo2012-0452.1     Document Type: Article

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