Removal of DC power‐line magnetic‐field effects from airborne total magnetic‐field measurements [Link]

Power lines carrying DC current can strongly affect total magnetic‐field measurements. A simple algorithm using Biot–Savart's law was made to remove magnetic‐field components due to a DC power line from airborne total magnetic‐field measurements in the Gävle area, Sweden. The power‐line location was estimated from observed data and then split into short line segments. The magnetic‐field components due to each segment were calculated and summed together to give the total magnetic effect due to the power line at each observation point. The corrected total magnetic field was calculated by subtracting the power‐line magnetic‐field vector, projected on to the direction of the main field, from the measured total field. The results show a successful removal of the power‐line magnetic effect from the total magnetic‐field measurements. However, an error in the estimation of the power‐line location can result in a magnetic‐field residual after correction. A non‐linear median filtering was used to remove this residual when needed.