Every day, mining corporations grow and develop over Egypt’s Eastern Desert in search of gold, silver, and other metals. Mineral resources in Egypt are a powerful tool for increasing national income. In this study, we are interested in mineral...
Aeromagnetic gradient data have higher horizontal resolution on shallow sources, a magnetic anomaly that can better reflect the features of deeper sources. Therefore, we used a joint survey of aeromagnetic and gradient data to obtain the distribution...
Natural geogenic effects lead to alterations in soil heavy metal concentrations. This study assesses the presence of elevated trace-element concentrations in the Oued Irriri watershed in southeastern Morocco. ASTER satellite imagery, geochemical, and...
The present study aims to characterize complex geological structures and significant mineralization using remote sensing and aeromagnetic studies. Structural lineaments play a crucial role in the localization and concentration of mineral deposits. Fo...
We propose a processing workflow to enhance the information content of aeromagnetic data. Our workflow is based on the downward continuation and subsequent L-transform of magnetic data. This workflow returns a map showing single highs, which correspo...
Understanding the characteristics of lead–zinc mine occurrences and mastering effective investigative techniques are paramount in modern ore prospecting. This research focuses on the forested region of Yichun city in China, with a specific emph...
The aeromagnetic survey is a common remote sensing tool for detecting iron deposits. The local wavenumber of a magnetic anomaly is used to interpret the edges or positions of the sources, and can involve first- or second-order local wavenumbers. In t...
In the Qihe area, the magnetic anomalies caused by deep and concealed magnetite are weak and compared with ground surveys, airborne surveys further weaken the signals. Moreover, the magnetite in the Qihe area belongs to a contact-metasomatic deposit,...
The present study was designed to give a clear and comprehensive understanding of the structural situation in the Sohag region and surrounding area by applying several edge detectors to aeromagnetic data. In this research, the International Geomagnet...
Across the Luconia continental shelf, the nature and structures of the crust are lacking geological understanding and precise characterization. Newly acquired, aeromagnetic, and airborne gravity data were used to assess deep and shallow sub-surface s...
The ferricrete units (Fe oxide cemented colluvial-alluvial sediment) of the Yilgarn Craton in Western Australia formed during the humid tropical and sub-tropical climates of the Cenozoic. Ferricretes are generally developed on long-lived paleodrainag...
Numerical analysis of geophysical data to uncover Precambrian belts and probably to enclose mineral deposits is becoming once more communal in mining activity. The method is founded on typifying zones branded to comprehend deposits and looking for an...
In the current study, we conducted petrographic investigation combined with aeromagnetic data in order to classify variable granitic rocks, delineate structural trends and deduce depth of the basement rocks cropping out in Homrit Waggat area, Central...
The complex geology of southwestern Mexico results from prolonged interaction between the North American and Farallon plates along an active subduction zone. This process led to crustal growth via oceanic lithosphere consumption, island arc accretion...
The success of geological prospecting depends on the accuracy of target area prediction. Traditional qualitative research methods rooted in theoretical frameworks have shown significant limitations, especially in their inability to fully exploit the...
Due to its unique geographic and tectonic location, the Bou Azzer inlier has drawn increased interest in mining studies. The inlier’s basement structure remains subject to investigation meanwhile faults and igneous rocks affect the local geolog...
Innovative magnetic techniques are pivotal for advancing mineral exploration. This study presents a self-structural constraint (SSC) method that jointly inverts aeromagnetic and gradient data to resolve high-resolution magnetic susceptibility models...
Fuzzy C-Means (FCM) clustering is an unsupervised machine learning algorithm that helps to integrate multiple geophysical datasets and provides automated objective-oriented information. This study analyzed ground-based Bouguer gravity and aeromagneti...
The effectiveness of geological prospecting depends on the accuracy of the prediction of the prospecting target areas. In comparison with the conventional qualitative method (Mineral Exploration and Development), the use of big data concepts and meth...
Positive and negative magnetic anomalies occupied the total aeromagnetic (TM) map of the Harrat ad Danun area, Saudi Arabia. Reduction to the pole (RTP) maps display the range of magnetic values (−312.4 to 209.4 nT) that vary in shape, size, an...
Magnetic inversion through three-dimensional (3D) susceptibility reconstruction can effectively identify the deep extension characteristics and structural variations in faults. Therefore, the reliability of inversion results from magnetic anomaly dat...
This study integrates aeromagnetic data with geological information to develop a consistent interpretation of both shallow and deep structural frameworks at various depths in the Missiakat Al Jukh area, located in the Central Eastern Desert, Egypt. T...
Aeromagnetic exploration is a magnetic exploration method that detects changes of the earth’s magnetic field by loading a magnetometer on an aircraft. With the miniaturization of magnetometers and the development of unmanned aerial vehicles (UA...
Aeromagnetic compensation is a crucial step in the processing of aeromagnetic data. The aeromagnetic compensation method based on the linear regression model has poorer fitting capacity than the neural network aeromagnetic compensation algorithm. The...
Aeromagnetic measurement plays an important role in mineral exploration, but unmanned aerial vehicles generate maneuvering noise during aerial flight, which negatively impacts the accuracy of aeromagnetic measurement data. Therefore, aeromagnetic com...
In geophysics, aeromagnetic surveying based on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) is a widely employed exploration technique, that can analyze underground structures by conducting data acquisition, processing, and inversion. This method is highly efficie...
We present our aeromagnetic survey results from an investigation of the iron ore mineral distribution in Pocheon, Korea, in the west-central area of the Korean Peninsula. A manned aeromagnetic system using a helicopter for regional exploration and an...
Based on the CH-3 and WH-110A unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) platforms, we independently developed aeromagnetic systems for fixed-wing UAVs (FUAV) and modified unmanned helicopters (MUH), respectively. These systems overcome key technological challeng...
The occurrence characteristics of magnetite and the methods to quickly and effectively explore are important topics for ore prospecting in the new era. Taking northeast of Hebei Province of China as an example, this article aimed at an important stra...
Airborne geophysical surveys serve as an effective tool for litho-structural mapping, providing extensive and high-resolution underground information. They offer vital data support for the interpretation and analysis of lithologies and structures, co...
Eliminating the magnetic interference of the carrier platform is an important technical link and plays a vital role in aeromagnetic survey. The traditional compensation method is based on the Tolles–Lawson (T-L) model and establishes the linear...
Aeromagnetic surveys play an important role in many fields, for example, archaeology, anti-submarine warfare, and geophysical exploration. Being in the geomagnetic field, the aircraft generates a great deal of magnetic interference, resulting in bad...
Quadrotor UAV-based aeromagnetic survey for mineral exploration has become a crucial solution in modern airborne geophysics due to its prominent advantages of cost-effectiveness and high efficiency. During the detection process, the magnetic anomaly...
Magnetic surveys have been widely used in archaeological field investigations. However, conventional survey methods are often restricted by complicated field conditions and ambiguities in data interpretation. In this study, a novel magnetic survey sy...
Aeromagnetic data coupled with Landsat ETM+ data and SRTM DEM have been processed in order to map regional hydrogeological structures in the basement complex region of Paiko, North Central Nigeria. Lineaments were extracted from derivative maps of ae...
The growing need for an industrialized world, especially in Africa, cannot be feasible without adequate mineral resources. Thus, the search for more mineral deposits will continue to be necessary. An integrated approach involving geological mapping a...
The exploration of deep mineral resources is an important prerequisite for meeting the continuous demand of resources. The geophysical method is one of the most effective means of exploring the deep mineral resources with a large depth and a high res...
Aeromagnetic compensation is a technology used to reduce aircraft magnetic interference, which plays an important role in aeromagnetic surveys. In addition to maneuvering interferences, the onboard electronic (OBE) interference has been proven to be...
Egypt’s mineral resources are an effective means of raising the country’s income. Consequently, searching for deep subsurface ore deposits is essential. In this study, we map the subsurface structure and the occurrence of related gold-ore...
The Hetaoping ore district in Baoshan City, Yunnan Province, is one of the major localities of Pb-Zn polymetallic skarn deposits in China, where geophysical and geochemical surveys play an important role in exploring Pb-Zn polymetallic mineral resour...
In aeromagnetic detection and geomagnetic navigation, the reference geomagnetic maps usually need to be continued to different altitudes. Traditionally, the geomagnetic field upward continuation is stable. Nevertheless, the downward continuation is i...
Gold mining in Egypt’s Central Eastern Desert (ECED) has a rich history dating back to the Old Kingdom period. In recent years, there has been renewed interest from international mining companies, and several potential areas for gold mining hav...
Aeromagnetic surveys are widely used in geological exploration, mineral resource assessment, environmental monitoring, military reconnaissance, and other areas. It is necessary to perform magnetic compensation for interference in these fields. In rec...
Airborne magnetic anomaly detection is an important passive remote sensing technique. However, since the magnetic field caused by the aircraft interferes with the detection accuracy, this part of interference should be eliminated by an aeromagnetic c...
The integration of imaging spectroscopy and aeromagnetics provides a cost-effective and promising way to extend the initial analysis of a mineral deposit. While imaging spectroscopy retrieves surface spectral information, magnetic responses are used...
The mining of essential minerals is often made more difficult by subsurface geological structures such as dykes and contacts. The a priori knowledge of these features can greatly mitigate the problems that they would otherwise cause. For that reason,...
Analyzing and fusing information layers of exploratory parameters is a crucial stride for increasing the accuracy of pinpointing mineral potential zones in the reconnaissance stage of mineral exploration. Remote sensing, geophysical, geochemical, and...
Mineral exploration projects can make considerable use of a variety of geophysical techniques and datasets, including magnetic and gravity data. The interpretation of large quantities of data can be very time consuming, so semi-automatic interpretati...
The Heyu ore-concentrated area in western Henan, situated within the East Qinling metallogenic belt, represents a strategic fluorite resource base currently confronting severe challenges of reserve depletion. Given this critical status, this study fo...
The 2021 eruption of the Tajogaite volcano (La Palma, Canary Islands) provided a unique opportunity to investigate the early post-eruptive magnetic structure of a newly formed volcanic edifice. Understanding these structures is essential for improvin...
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