In the last decades, helicopter-borne electromagnetic (HEM) method became a focus of interest in the fields of mineral exploration, geological mapping, groundwater resource investigation and environmental monitoring. As a standard approach, researchers use 1-D inversion of the acquired HEM data to recover the conductivity/resistivity-depth models. Since the relation between HEM data and model ...

among all the geophysical techniques, the magnetotelluric method has improved considerably in recent years and is widely being used in hydrocarbon exploration especially in regions where reflection seismic has difficulties. areas which are covered with high velocity rocks in the near surface are most popular cases. a huge high resolution magnetotelluric investigation was conducted in the sehqan...

This study attempts to combine the results of geophysical images obtained from three commonly used electrode configurations using an image processing technique in order to assess their capabilities to reproduce two-dimensional (2-D) resistivity models. All the inverse resistivity models were processed using the PCI Geomatica software package commonly used for remote sensing data sets. Preproces...

helicopter-borne electromagnetic (hem) is a fast and high resolution airborne electromagnetic (aem) method that is frequently used for imaging of the subsurface resistivity structures. this is a versatile and cost effective method, frequently has used in mineral and groundwater exploration and various environmental problems. modern frequency-domain hem systems utilize small electromagnetic, mag...

High density electrical prospecting has been widely used in groundwater investigation, civil engineering and environmental survey. For efficient inversion, the forward modeling routine, sensitivity calculation, and inversion algorithm must be efficient. This paper attempts to provide a brief summary of the past and ongoing developments of the method. It includes reviews of the procedures used f...

The ability of a block inversion scheme, in which polygons are employed to define layers andror bodies of equal resistivity, in determining the geometry and true resistivity of subsurface structures has been investigated and a simple strategy for deriving the starting model is proposed. A comparison has also been made between block inversion and smooth inversion, the latter being a cell-based s...

Pertamina has conducted geothermal exploration in Sumatra showing that the depths to the top of most of the geothermal reservoirs are about 1000-2000 meters. Previous geophysical exploration work by Pertamina emphasized the use of DC-resistivity methods such as the Schlumberger method. However, these techmques can typically only penetrate to a depth of less than 1000 meters and are too shallow ...

The electrical resistivity of Co/Ni and Cu/Ni superlattices exhibit resistivity oscillations as a function of superlattice period L, while Ag/Pd does not. Moreover, the resistivity of Co/Ni superlattices shows quantum size effects and a resistivity enhancement with L, as a function of total film thickness d . These results are consistent with a model which assumes d-electron localization in the...

We present an open source 3-D, MATLAB based, resistivity inversion package. The package uses a finite volume discretization to solve the forward partial differential equation. We include a highly efficient approach to reducing boundary effects and source electrode singularities. Solving of the forward problem is achieved by using a preconditioned bi-conjugate stabilized gradient method. For the...

Magnetotelluric (MT) studies can map subsurface resistivity structure and have located zones of low resistivity (high conductivity) within major strike-slip fault zones worldwide which have been interpreted as regions of elevated fluid content. This study describes MT data from the eastern part of the North Anatolian and the East Anatolian Fault Systems (NAFS and EAFS) and presents the results ...