Joint 3D of muon tomography and gravity data to recover density

Kristofer Davis; Douglas W. Oldenburg

doi:10.1071/ASEG2012ab172

ISSN: 2202-0586
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oa Joint 3D of muon tomography and gravity data to recover density
Authors Kristofer Davis^a and Douglas W. Oldenburg^b
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^a UBC-Geophysical Inversion Facility Dept. of Ocean and Earth SciencesUniversity of British Columbia, 6449 Stores Rd Vancouver, , BC V6T 1Z4, , Canada, [email protected] ^b UBC-Geophysical Inversion Facility Dept. of Ocean and Earth SciencesUniversity of British Columbia, 6449 Stores Rd Vancouver, , BC V6T 1Z4, , Canada, [email protected]
Publisher: Australian Society of Exploration Geophysicists
Source: ASEG Extended Abstracts, Volume 2012, Issue ASEG2012 - 22nd Geophysical Conference, Dec 2012, p. 1 - 4
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1071/ASEG2012ab172
- Published online: 01 Dec 2012

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Cosmic rays producing muons shower the Earth daily. These natural, high-energy particles decay as they pass through matter and are directly affected by density. Recently, sensors have been placed in existing tunnels and mine shafts that observe muon flux in a brown-field mining scenario. We have developed an algorithm to invert these data individually, or jointly with gravity data, to recover a 3D distribution of density. Muon and gravity data are both linear functionals of density but the associated sensitivity functions are substantially different. These differences in physics between muon ray paths and gravity data provide a unique insight into the subsurface. This is illustrated through synthetic examples. Inversion of a set of field data, obtained at a mine site in south-west British Columbia, Canada, illustrates the potential benefits and challenges for the technique to be used in field surveys.

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Keyword(s): density; gravity; joint inversion; muon tomography

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