Advanced Electromagnetic Sensors and Systems in Geophysics: Technology and Applications
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Physical Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2026 | Viewed by 10
Special Issue Editors
Interests: multi-modal geophysical exploration methods
Interests: airborne geophysical equipment technology
Interests: mineral electromagnetic exploration; near-source electromagnetic method; data inversion; semi-airborne electromagnetic survey; AI-driven positioning prediction
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In recent years, with the accelerated advancement of the world's industrialization process, surface mineral resources have been gradually depleting, and the demand for deep resource exploration has become increasingly urgent. Geophysical methods are one of the main means for deep resource exploration. To achieve fine exploration of deep geological targets, increasingly stringent requirements are placed on detection systems centered on sensors. Key and frontier challenges in this field include how to more accurately detect weak deep-Earth signals, adapt to increasingly complex detection scenarios, reduce R&D, maintenance, and application costs without sacrificing performance, and achieve the integration of multiple observation modes at both the hardware and software levels to enhance result reliability.
This Special Issue focuses on addressing these key and frontier issues in the field of geophysical electromagnetic detection and highlighting their significance. This Issue aims to bring together original research and review articles on recent advances, technologies, solutions, applications, and emerging challenges in this field.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to the following:
- advanced magnetic field sensor;
- non-contact electric field sensor;
- superconducting sensor;
- integration of sensors with the carrying platform;
- airborne/semi-airborne electromagnetic detection system;
- marine electromagnetic detection system;
- borehole electromagnetic detection system;
- multi-modal detection system and information fusion.
Dr. Xin Wu
Prof. Dr. Bin Chen
Prof. Dr. Guoqiang Xue
Dr. Xiaodong Luan
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- high sensitivity
- low noise
- complex detection scenarios
- multi-modal
- mineral exploration
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