New Tools & Methodologies
New Tools
Five protoypes geophysical systems are being developed and validated within the project – mainly under WP2 – New Instruments:
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle - UAV
A modular-based, geo-referenced UAV system has been constructed together with a novel broadband EM data acquisition system to be mounted on it.
Developing partners: AMKVO and Geological Survey of Sweden
Helicopter-based deep penetrating TEM - HTEM
The system markedly enhances the deep of investigation (DOI) while lowering the cost of collecting one line km data.
Developing partners: SkyTEM and Aarhus University
Electric Seismic Source - e-vib
The e-vib is used to vibrate the ground and thus allowing to map the subsurface using echoes to create visuals, in a manner similar to ultrasound technologies. It is is fully electric and broadband in frequency, making the images more accurate and higher resolution, and it can be used underground.
Developing partners: Seismic Mechatronics, TU Delft
GPS time-system
the system mainly uses hydrophones communicating with the surface via ethernet cables and represents a cost- and time-effective modular digital acquisition system useful for both slim-boreholes and depths as 1500-2500 meters.
Developing partners: MicNordic AB and Uppsala University
Slimhole modular-based digital seismic-magnetic-temperature system
The system allows deeper penetration around boreholes; being also digital (EM noise free) it can also be used by non-expert geophysicists and hence more routinely employed.
Developing partners: Bitsim and Uppsala University
New Methodologies
New and adapted seismic and EM methods are being developed and validated mainly within WP3 – Advanced Subsurface Imaging and Modeling:
- 3D frequency and time-domain electromagnetic modeling.
- Thin-sheet time-domain modeling and IP responses.
- New solutions for near-surface problems and related deeper imaging improvements.
- Generating additional data from sparse active-source seismic data with lower environmental impact. Scattering/diffractivity imaging, improved resolution depth imaging.
- Using background seismicity for imaging, source-free imaging and characterization.
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