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  • Open Access
8 Citations
1,941 Views
18 Pages

An Adaptive Modeling-Based Aeromagnetic Maneuver Noise Suppression Method and Its Application in Mine Detection

  • Fengyi Bi,
  • Ping Yu,
  • Jian Jiao,
  • Longran Zhou,
  • Xiangcheng Zeng and
  • Shuai Zhou

18 September 2023

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
667 Views
21 Pages

9 November 2025

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,501 Views
14 Pages

17 August 2022

In aeromagnetic detection, the magnetic interference conducted by electric currents in onboard electronic (OBE) equipment is gradually being taken seriously with the development of aeromagnetic compensation technology. Here, we propose a compensation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,803 Views
19 Pages

23 March 2021

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,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,018 Views
19 Pages

Intelligent Dynamic-Enhanced Compensation for UAV Magnetic Interference

  • Zizhou Chen,
  • Zhentao Yu,
  • Cong Liu,
  • Guozheng Wu,
  • Jianwei Li,
  • Dan Wang,
  • Ye Wang and
  • Yaxun Zhang

14 August 2025

Magnetic interference compensation is critical for enhancing the accuracy of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) magnetic anomaly detection. To address the constrained compensation performance of the conventional Tolles-Lawson (T-L) model, which stems from...

  • Article
  • Open Access
834 Views
21 Pages

13 May 2025

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,726 Views
15 Pages

14 August 2025

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,614 Views
23 Pages

23 June 2023

At present, the research and application of aeromagnetic compensation are almost all based on the Tolles–Lawson (T–L) model. With the development of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), the number of intelligent electronic devices in UAVs is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
574 Views
20 Pages

24 March 2025

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
846 Views
17 Pages

30 April 2025

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,966 Views
13 Pages

An Aeromagnetic Compensation Algorithm Based on a Residual Neural Network

  • Ping Yu,
  • Fengyi Bi,
  • Jian Jiao,
  • Xiao Zhao,
  • Shuai Zhou and
  • Zhenning Su

24 October 2022

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,182 Views
19 Pages

22 December 2022

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,537 Views
20 Pages

13 March 2025

Aeromagnetic compensation is the main method for eliminating magnetic interference on flight platforms. With the improved sensitivity of aeromagnetic sensors, the generalization and compensation accuracy of existing aeromagnetic compensation methods...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,578 Views
26 Pages

Occurrence Characteristics of Magnetite and Aeromagnetic Prospecting Northeast of Hebei Province

  • Yan-Xu Liu,
  • Wen-Yong Li,
  • Zhi-Yuan Liu,
  • Jia-Wei Zhao,
  • An-Qi Cao,
  • Shan Gao,
  • Li-Jie Wang and
  • Cheng Yang

14 September 2022

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,337 Views
16 Pages

An Improved Aeromagnetic Compensation Method Robust to Geomagnetic Gradient

  • Yongqiang Feng,
  • Qimao Zhang,
  • Yaoxin Zheng,
  • Xiaodong Qu,
  • Fang Wu and
  • Guangyou Fang

29 January 2022

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,721 Views
17 Pages

20 April 2023

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
868 Views
19 Pages

16 September 2025

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,143 Views
18 Pages

28 November 2022

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
688 Views
16 Pages

28 March 2025

With the widespread application of RTD-fluxgate sensors in UAV aeromagnetic measurements, improving sensor sensitivity is essential for aeromagnetic gradient detection. The excitation waveform is one of the key factors affecting sensitivity. Under si...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,761 Views
18 Pages

A Data-Driven OBE Magnetic Interference Compensation Method

  • Yizhen Wang,
  • Qi Han,
  • Dechen Zhan and
  • Qiong Li

12 October 2022

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
9,298 Views
18 Pages

13 February 2020

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
8,692 Views
17 Pages

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,161 Views
17 Pages

7 May 2025

Aeromagnetic detection is a geophysical exploration technology that utilizes aircraft-mounted magnetometers to map variations in the Earth’s magnetic field. As a critical methodology for subsurface investigations, it has been extensively applie...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,758 Views
13 Pages

An Aeromagnetic Compensation Method Based on a Multimodel for Mitigating Multicollinearity

  • Guanyi Zhao,
  • Qi Han,
  • Xiang Peng,
  • Pengyi Zou,
  • Haidong Wang,
  • Changping Du,
  • He Wang,
  • Xiaojun Tong,
  • Qiong Li and
  • Hong Guo

3 July 2019

Aeromagnetic surveys play an important role in geophysical exploration and many other fields. In many applications, magnetometers are installed aboard an aircraft to survey large areas. Due to its composition, an aircraft has its own magnetic field,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,948 Views
15 Pages

13 June 2022

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,708 Views
14 Pages

Targeting Paleovalley-Related Ferricrete Units in Yilgarn Craton Using High-Resolution Aeromagnetic Data and Spatial Machine Learning

  • Hassan Talebi,
  • Jelena Markov,
  • Walid Salama,
  • Alex Otto,
  • Vasek Metelka,
  • Ravi Anand and
  • Dave Cole

13 July 2022

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
615 Views
17 Pages

A Recursive Truncated Taylor Expansion Downward Continuation Method for Geomagnetic Field

  • Ke Wan,
  • Haibin Li,
  • Xu Liu,
  • Zhongyan Liu,
  • Yujing Xu,
  • Yujie Xiang,
  • Zengquan Ding,
  • Weiji Dai,
  • Xinrong He and
  • Qi Zhang

13 August 2025

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,257 Views
20 Pages

30 January 2025

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,007 Views
14 Pages

A Novel Strategy for Improving the Aeromagnetic Compensation Performance of Helicopters

  • Luzhao Chen,
  • Peilin Wu,
  • Wanhua Zhu,
  • Yongqiang Feng and
  • Guangyou Fang

6 June 2018

An aeromagnetic survey is an important method in magnetic anomaly detection and geophysical prospecting. The magnetic field is typically measured by optically pumped magnetometers (OPM) installed on the aircraft. The measurement accuracy of the OPM i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,249 Views
16 Pages

17 January 2025

With the wide application of Residence Time Difference (RTD) fluxgate sensors in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) aeromagnetic measurements, the requirements for their measurement accuracy are increasing. The core characteristics of the RTD fluxgate sen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,593 Views
23 Pages

Integration of Hyperspectral and Magnetic Data for Geological Characterization of the Niaqornarssuit Ultramafic Complex in West-Greenland

  • Agnieszka Kuras,
  • Björn H. Heincke,
  • Sara Salehi,
  • Christian Mielke,
  • Nicole Köllner,
  • Christian Rogass,
  • Uwe Altenberger and
  • Ingunn Burud

29 September 2022

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,501 Views
15 Pages

An Aeromagnetic Compensation Strategy for Large UAVs

  • Liwei Ye,
  • Zhentao Yu,
  • Yaxun Zhang,
  • Cheng Chi,
  • Pu Cheng and
  • Jie Chen

10 June 2024

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,094 Views
22 Pages

Integrated Geophysical Signatures of the Jiaodong Region in China and Their Implications for Deep Architecture and Gold Metallogenic Systems

  • Haiyang Kuang,
  • Jiayong Yan,
  • Kun Zhang,
  • Wenlong Tang,
  • Chao Fu,
  • Jiangang Liang,
  • Guoli Zhang and
  • Yuexin You

17 April 2025

The Jiaodong region ranks as the world’s third-largest gold metallogenic province, where Late Mesozoic gold mineralization exhibits close genetic connections with cratonic destruction and multi-stage plate tectonic interactions. This study syst...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
892 Views
19 Pages

Application of High-Precision Magnetic Measurement in the Exploration of Deep Fluorite Deposits in Ore Concentrations

  • Zhuo Zhang,
  • Yao Dong,
  • Xin Du,
  • Kun Qi,
  • Yuanyuan Xia,
  • Fengyu Sun and
  • Guanghui Li

27 March 2025

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,553 Views
18 Pages

11 September 2025

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,777 Views
17 Pages

9 December 2022

The cross section is the basic data for building 3D geological models. It is inefficient to draw a large number of cross sections to build an accurate model. This paper reports the use of multi-source and heterogeneous geological data, such as geolog...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
3,642 Views
16 Pages

Airborne/UAV Multisensor Surveys Enhance the Geological Mapping and 3D Model of a Pseudo-Skarn Deposit in Ploumanac’h, French Brittany

  • Guillaume Martelet,
  • Eric Gloaguen,
  • Arne Døssing,
  • Eduardo Lima Simoes da Silva,
  • Johannes Linde and
  • Thorkild M. Rasmussen

12 November 2021

Taking advantage of a multi-sensor (multispectral and magnetic) drone survey, we address the detailed geological mapping and modeling of a mineralization in its geological environment. We stress that these high-resolution data allow us to bridge the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
456 Views
16 Pages

Temperature Field Construction in Qinghai-Gonghe Basin Based on Integrated Geophysical Inversion Results

  • Yuanyuan Ming,
  • Zhaofa Zeng,
  • Puyuan Tian,
  • Zhengpu Cheng,
  • Fang Lu,
  • Linyou Zhang,
  • Qiuchen Li,
  • Xue Niu and
  • Shujun Guo

1 October 2025

As a clean and renewable energy source with huge reserves, hot dry rock geothermal resources have received wide attention. The geothermal field plays a crucial role in studying the heat source mechanism of hot dry rock, defining target areas, and eva...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,190 Views
8 Pages

10 April 2024

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,056 Views
16 Pages

5 March 2025

The high-magnetic anomaly belt in the northern slope of the South China Sea has long been associated with a Mesozoic volcanic arc. However, its crustal architecture remains unclear, limiting the understanding of its geological implications. We assemb...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,969 Views
20 Pages

4 January 2023

The Gamburtsev Subglacial Mountains (GSMs) in the interior East Antarctic Craton are entirely buried under the massive East Antarctic ice sheet, with a ~50–60 km thick crust and ~200 km thick lithosphere, but little is known of the crustal stru...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,119 Views
26 Pages

12 November 2023

This work aims to model mineral prospectivity for intrusion–related gold deposits in the central portion of the Tapajós Mineral Province (TMP), southwestern Pará state. The scope includes experimentation and evaluation of knowledg...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,339 Views
24 Pages

Three-Dimension Inversion of Magnetic Data Based on Multi-Constraint UNet++

  • Jian Jiao,
  • Xiangcheng Zeng,
  • Hui Liu,
  • Ping Yu,
  • Tao Lin and
  • Shuai Zhou

30 June 2024

The three-dimension (3D) inversion of magnetic data is an effective method of recovering underground magnetic susceptibility distributions using magnetic anomaly data. The conventional regularization inversion method has good data fitting; however, i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,107 Views
16 Pages

23 December 2024

With growing electricity demand and an increasing focus on renewable energy, geothermal energy exploration is gaining prominence in Saudi Arabia. This study investigates the geothermal potential of the Riyadh region by integrating various geophysical...

  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,846 Views
14 Pages

24 August 2022

With the rapid development of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) technology, using UAVs for magnetic surveys is a booming branch. However, the magnetic interference generated by the UAV hinders the further application of UAV magnetic survey systems. In...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,723 Views
10 Pages

Analysis of Acoustic–Magnetic Fields Induced by Underwater Pressure Wave in a Finite-Depth Ocean

  • Yuanguo Zhou,
  • Peng Huang,
  • Guoqing Yang,
  • Shangqing Liang,
  • Qiang Ren and
  • Shiwei Tian

21 February 2023

As underwater disturbances (natural or artificial) occur in the ocean, moving seawater crossing the geomagnetic fields will produce weak circular currents. These currents can induce measurable magnetic fields, which might be useful for monitoring oce...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,571 Views
19 Pages

3 December 2024

This study investigates the application of machine learning techniques for predicting volcanic vent locations based on aeromagnetic geophysical data. Magnetic data, known to reflect subsurface geological structures, presents a valuable source of info...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,139 Views
25 Pages

3D Inversion of Magnetic Gradient Tensor Data Based on Convolutional Neural Networks

  • Hua Deng,
  • Xiangyun Hu,
  • Hongzhu Cai,
  • Shuang Liu,
  • Ronghua Peng,
  • Yajun Liu and
  • Bo Han

30 April 2022

High-precision vector magnetic field detection has been widely used in the fields of celestial magnetic field detection, aeromagnetic detection, marine magnetic field detection and geomagnetic navigation. Due to the large amount of data, the 3D inver...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,974 Views
22 Pages

10 November 2021

Digital edge detector operations using magnetic derivatives in conjunction with spectra depth analysis were performed on high-resolution aeromagnetic signals to enhance the delineation and interpretation of depth, structural, and intrasedimentary fea...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,864 Views
22 Pages

30 July 2021

Spatial mapping of potential geothermal areas is an effective tool for a preliminary investigation and the development of a clean and renewable energy source around the globe. Specific locations within the Earth’s crust display some manifestations of...

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