Experience with SQUID magnetometers in airborne TEM surveying

Exploration Geophysics

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 9-13

  Lee, James B ^a   Turner, Robert J ^a   Downey, Mark A ^a   Maddever, Arthur ^a   Dart, David L ^b   Foley, Catherine P ^c   Binks, Rex ^c   Lewis, Christopher ^c   Murray, Wayne ^c   Panjkovic, Goran ^c   Asten, Michael ^d  

^a BHP BILLITON   (Australia)

^b BHP Minerals Technology   (Australia)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

^d MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Airborne time domain electromagnetic; Electromagnetic; Exploration; Magnetometer; SQUID

Indexed keywords

EID: 85009397509     PISSN: 08123985     EISSN: 18347533     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/EG01009     Document Type: Article

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