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Abstract

Summary

This paper focuses on the sampling of the electromagnetic transient as acquired by airborne TDEM systems.

Typically, the sampling of the electromagnetic transient is done using a fixed number of gates whose width grows logarithmically (log-gating). The log-gating has two main benefits: improving the S/N ratio at late times, when the electromagnetic signal has amplitudes equal or lower than the natural background noise, and at same time ensuring a good resolution at the early times.

We propose a new sampling method, adapting the gating on the base of the slope variations in the EM transient.

Using synthetic models, we show that the adaptive-gating scheme improves both accuracy and precision of the estimated parameters of the inverse models.

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2015-09-06
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