Coil response inversion for very early time modelling of helicopter-borne time-domain electromagnetic data and mapping of near-surface geological layers

Geophysical Prospecting

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 658-674

  Schamper, Cyril ^a   Auken, Esben ^a   Sørensen, Kurt ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Early times; Near surface; Transient airborne

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; HELICOPTERS; MAGNETOMETERS; TRANSMITTERS;

AIRBORNE ELECTROMAGNETIC; EARLY TIMES; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTROMAGNETIC SYSTEMS; NEAR-SURFACE; RESPONSE COMPENSATION; TIME-DOMAIN ELECTROMAGNETIC DATA; TRANSIENT ELECTROMAGNETIC SYSTEMS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC PROSPECTING;

AIRBORNE SURVEY; DATA INVERSION; ELECTROMAGNETIC SURVEY; MAPPING; MODELING; RESOLUTION;

EID: 84897965916     PISSN: 00168025     EISSN: 13652478     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2478.12104     Document Type: Article

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