Correcting aerial gamma-ray survey data for aircraft altitude

Exploration Geophysics

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 161-166

  Craig, Maurice ^a   Dickson, Bruce ^b   Rodrigues, Stewart ^b  

^a BHP BILLITON   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Deconvolution; Gamma radiometry; Inverse filtering; Wiener filter

Indexed keywords

EID: 85009402261     PISSN: 08123985     EISSN: 18347533     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/EG999161     Document Type: Article

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