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Effects of instrument orientation on small-loop electromagnetic induction surveys of localized 2D conductive targets

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العنوان: Effects of instrument orientation on small-loop electromagnetic induction surveys of localized 2D conductive targets
المؤلفون: Robledo, F.E., Martinelli, H.P., Bonomo, N.E.
المجموعة: Biblioteca Digital FCEN-UBA (Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires)
مصطلحات موضوعية: electromagnetic induction, instrument orientation, inversion, lateral filtering, localized 2D objects, small loop, data inversion, electrical conductivity, electromagnetic survey, geoelectric field, magnetic field, one-dimensional modeling, subsoil, two-dimensional modeling, visualization
الوصف: Frequency-domain electromagnetic induction (EMI) systems, composed of two coplanar small coils separated by a fixed distance (EMI or SLEM), enable the rapid detection of a great variety of near-surface structures. One coil generates a controlled, primary magnetic field and the other records the variations of the induced field while the instrument is moved over the studied area. The most usual acquisition configuration corresponds to horizontal coils, with the instrument axis parallel to the prospection lines. Usually, the interpretation is based on the direct visualization of the plan-views of the data measured at each frequency. In addition, to characterize the subsoil structure in-depth, 1D inversion methods are generally applied. The aim of this work is to analyse how the system orientation affects the ability of the method to detect localized, 2D conductive structures, buried at shallow depths, and the possibility of adequately characterizing these targets through 1D inversions. We performed a survey at a test site that contains two known structures of this type, buried in almost perpendicular directions. We performed parallel prospection lines in the direction of each structure, employing, aside from the usual configuration described before, other configurations that included horizontal and vertical coils, with the instrument axis parallel and perpendicular to the lines. For comparison, we also performed a geoelectric dipole-dipole line crossing one of the targets. The features of the anomalies observed in the graphs of the EMI apparent conductivity data strongly depend on the instrument orientation. In the horizontal coil configurations, a decrease of the apparent conductivity is observed just over the targets. Besides, each vertical configuration practically detects only the target aligned with the plane of the coils, as an important positive anomaly. Through numerical simulations, performed using a 2D forward modelling method, we demonstrate that these features are indeed 2D effects associated with the ...
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Relation: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_17422132_v8_n4_p579_Robledo
الاتاحة: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_17422132_v8_n4_p579_Robledo
Rights: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess ; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ar
رقم الانضمام: edsbas.4BA6DE97
قاعدة البيانات: BASE