Affiliation:
1. Spaceage Geoconsulting, Canberra, Australia..
Abstract
I have developed an improved practical method for interpreting a symmetrical-shaped potential field anomaly due to an isolated source body of regular geometric configuration. The method uses the first-order horizontal derivative of the logarithmically transformed absolute value of the anomaly in estimating the source-body parameters, such as the location, depth of burial, and shape factor. To tackle noise in data, a regularization technique is designed, which ensures a robust estimate of the first-order derivative of logarithmically transformed data. The regularization technique uses an optimal value of regularization parameter that, although noise dependent, requires no a priori knowledge of the noise level in the data. A graphical method is designed to determine an optimal value of the regularization parameter from the position of the local minimum of a specially defined functional with respect to the regularization parameters. Numerical tests have been conducted on the noise-contaminated synthetic data to validate the proposed method. The successful application of the method on published field data for the gravity and magnetic anomaly suggests the applicability of the method.
Publisher
Society of Exploration Geophysicists
Subject
Geochemistry and Petrology,Geophysics
Cited by
2 articles.
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