potential field methods such as gravity and magnetic methods are among the most applied geophysical methods in mineral exploration. a high-resolution technique is developed to image geologic boundaries such as contacts and faults. potential field derivatives are the basis of many interpretation techniques. in boundary detection, the analytic signal quantity is defined by combining the val...

the analytic signal method is a semiautomatic method for estimating the location of causative bodies in magnetic and gravity methods. the application of analytic signal for interpretation of two dimensional (2d) structures was introduced by nabighian (1972). the analytic signal is defined as a complex function in which the real and imaginary parts are a pair of hilbert transforms. in other word...

Potential field methods such as gravity and magnetic methods are among the most applied geophysical methods in mineral exploration. A high-resolution technique is developed to image geologic boundaries such as contacts and faults. Potential field derivatives are the basis of many interpretation techniques. In boundary detection, the analytic signal quantity is d...

the analytic signal for magnetic anomalies was initially defined as a “complex field deriving from a complex potential” (nabighian, 1972). this function can be computed easily in the frequency domain, its real part is the horizontal derivative of the field and its imaginary part is the vertical derivative. analytic signal processing and interpretation requires few initial assumptions regarding ...

in this paper a new method is proposed for interpretation of 2d magnetic data, using multiples of the analytic signal method, in which the analytic signal of magnetic anomaly is used directly to compute the depth and the structural index of the source instead of using its higher order derivatives. this method only needs the computation of the first order derivatives of the magnetic anomaly, so ...

the analytic signal method is usually used to interpret the magnetic and gravity anomalies. the main advantage of using analytic signal method in interpretation of magnetic source parameters from magnetic anomalies is that the amplitude dip of the analytic signal is independent of directional parameters like magnetization and the dip of the source. using the coefficient of the amplitude to esti...

the s-transform has widely been used in the analysis of non-stationary time series. a simple method to obtain depth estimates of gravity field sources is introduced in this study. we have developed a new method based on the spectral characteristics of downward continuation to estimate depth of structures. this calculation procedure is based on replacement of the fourier transform with the s-tra...

Edge detection and edge enhancement techniques play an essential role in interpreting potential field data. This paper describes the application of various edge detection techniques to gravity data in order to delineate the edges of subsurface structures. The edge detection methods comprise analytic signal, total horizontal derivative (THDR), theta angle, tilt angle, hyperbolic of tilt angle (H...