Summary In 2D magnetotelluric modelling, the standard application of Dirichlet boundary conditions (BC) may severely diminish solution accuracy, because unknown scattered part electromagnetic field is erroneously reflected at domain boundary. Therefore, we adapt total and decomposition (TSFD) to geophysical enabling fully absorbing methods, here perfectly matched layers (PML) field. Our novel T...

The paper discusses the complex, agent-oriented hierarchic memetic strategy (HMS) dedicated to solving inverse parametric problems. The strategy goes beyond the idea of two-phase global optimization algorithms. The global search performed by a tree of dependent demes is dynamically alternated with local, steepest descent searches. The strategy offers exceptionally low computational costs, mainl...

Author: Pedro Luis Kantek Garcia Navarro Affiliation: CELEPAR Title: AN EVOLUTIONARY APPROACH IN MAGNETOTELLURIC INVERSION Text: Magnetotelluric inversion is the reconstitution of the pattern of underground geolectric conductivities out of an incomplete and noisy set of measurements of the electromagnetic field at various points of the surface, and at various frequencies. In the forward problem...

This paper reports an analysis of electromagnetic data from a site occupied on the floor of the Tasman Sea during an Australia-U.S. research program, the Tasman Project of Seafloor Magnetotelluric Exploration. This site (37ø33'S, 155ø58'E, depth 4450 m) is in the central portion of the Tasman Sea, and near both a fossil spreading ridge and the Tasmantid Seamount Chain. The extensive electric an...

soil hydraulic properties are key soil physical characteristics that are required to conduct soil and water related studies such as irrigation and drainage. in this study, three indirect methods: inverse modeling, pedo-transfer function, and the semi-physical method of arya et al., were compared in a sandy loam soil to estimate soil moisture retention and unsaturated hydraulic conductivity curv...

abstract surface soil shear strength is an effective parameter in soil erosion and runoff modeling, and known as soil erodibility index. this study was conducted to investigate and predict soil shear strength in central zagros region using multiple linear regressions (mlr). the study site was selected in rangeland and degraded-rangeland landuse with an area of 23562 ha. based on the maps of geo...

the deep internal structure of the crust can be determined using appropriate seismic and electromagnetic methods. the natural source magnetotelluric (mt) method is the most suitable electromagnetic technique for probing into the deep crust. a long period magnetotelluric data set obtained in the southern chilean andes is investigated in this paper. dimensionality analysis shows that the data may...