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Heli‐borne gravity gradiometry in rugged terrain
- Source :
- Geophysical Prospecting. 67:1626-1636
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- Wiley, 2019.
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Abstract
- For airborne gravity gradiometry in rugged terrain, helicopters offer a significant advantage over fixed‐wing aircraft: their ability to maintain much lower ground clearances. Crucially, this provides both better signal‐to‐noise and better spatial resolution than is possible with a fixed‐wing survey in the same terrain. Comparing surveys over gentle terrain at Margaret Lake, Canada, and over rugged terrain at Mount Aso, Japan, demonstrates that there is some loss of spatial resolution in the more rugged terrain. The slightly higher altitudes forced by rugged terrain make the requirements for terrain correction easier than for gentle terrain. Transforming the curvature gradients measured by the Falcon gravity gradiometer into gravity and the complete set of tensor components is done by a Fourier method over gentle terrain and an equivalent source method for rugged terrain. The Fourier method is perfectly stable and uses iterative padding to improve the accuracy of the longer wavelengths. The equivalent source method relies on a smooth model inversion, and the source distribution must be designed to suit the survey design.
- Subjects :
- Gravity (chemistry)
Data processing
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
Terrain
Survey research
010502 geochemistry & geophysics
Curvature
01 natural sciences
Gravity gradiometry
Gradiometer
Geophysics
Geochemistry and Petrology
Image resolution
Geology
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Remote sensing
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 13652478 and 00168025
- Volume :
- 67
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Geophysical Prospecting
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........7d24ad898c36fdf31f1234b6d5499559