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  • Open Access
3,267 Views
13 Pages

6 March 2020

The airborne transient electromagnetic (TEM) method is widely used in land applications but faces challenges in marine applications due to the strong masking effects of seawater. The accuracy of the inverse Laplace transform algorithm strongly affect...

(This article belongs to the Section Earth Sciences)
  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,724 Views
17 Pages

Exploring Shallow Geological Structures in Landslides Using the Semi-Airborne Transient Electromagnetic Method

  • Junjie Wu,
  • Du Xiao,
  • Bingrui Du,
  • Yuge Liu and ,
  • Qingquan Zhi,
  • Xingchun Wang,
  • Xiaohong Deng,
  • Xiaodong Chen,
  • Yi Zhao and
  • Yue Huang
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

29 August 2024

The Meijiayan landslide in Pengshui County within Chongqing City is a medium-scale soil landslide triggered by the excavation of roadbeds. To delve into the influencing factors and assess the stability of this landslide, it is crucial to meticulously...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multi-Data Applied to Near-Surface Geophysics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,631 Views
14 Pages

8 October 2022

The grounded electrical source airborne transient electromagnetic (GREATEM) system is widely used in groundwater resources detection, geothermal resource detection, geological structure detection, and other fields due to its wide detection range, hig...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,978 Views
28 Pages

BA-ATEMNet: Bayesian Learning and Multi-Head Self-Attention for Theoretical Denoising of Airborne Transient Electromagnetic Signals

  • Weijie Wang,
  • Xuben Wang,
  • Xiaodong Yu,
  • Debiao Luo and ,
  • Xinyue Liu,
  • Kai Yang,
  • Wen Yang,
  • Xiaolan Yang,
  • Ke Hu and
  • Wenyi Hu
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

26 December 2024

Airborne transient electromagnetic (ATEM) surveys provide a fast, flexible approach for identifying conductive metal deposits across a variety of intricate terrains. Nonetheless, the secondary electromagnetic response signals captured by ATEM systems...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,679 Views
17 Pages

Safe Treatment of Surface Coalfield Fires Above Shallow-Buried Goaf in Steeply Dipping Coal Seams

  • Pihong Zhang,
  • Ruchang Chen,
  • Guoqing Zhu,
  • Dezhi Yang and ,
  • Xin Li,
  • Wei Jiang,
  • Hao Liu and
  • Zhiyi Zhang
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

18 January 2025

Xinjiang is a region of China that suffers severe energy resource loss and air pollution resulting from long-term coalfield fires in near-surface inclined coal seams. Beneath these fire areas, abandoned mined-out goaf is common. Accidents easily occu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,592 Views
18 Pages

31 December 2022

Airborne transient electromagnetic (ATEM) technology is a technique often used in mineral exploration and geological mapping. Due to inductive polarization (IP) phenomena, the ATEM response curve often shows a negative response or declines rapidly to...

(This article belongs to the Section Electronic Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,522 Views
12 Pages

Application of Helicopter-Borne and Ground–Airborne Electromagnetic Detection to Tunnel Engineering Investigation

  • Tianyu Zhang,
  • Chunran Zhang,
  • Donghui Long,
  • Yanzhang Wang and ,
  • Haigen Zhou,
  • Shilong Wang,
  • Gang Li,
  • Haoran Li,
  • Fengdao Zhou and
  • Chuandong Jiang
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

1 February 2023

The Cedaya-S340 Holgutu Highway Construction Project is located in the Mongolian Autonomous Prefecture of Bayingolin in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. It is an important traffic channel that connects Luntai County and Hejing County at the sout...

(This article belongs to the Collection Advances in Theoretical and Applied Geophysics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,872 Views
15 Pages

4 February 2020

The grounded electrical-source airborne transient electromagnetic (GREATEM) system is widely used in mineral exploration. Meanwhile, the induced polarization (IP) effect, which indicates the polarizability of the earth, is often found. In this paper,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Numerical and Analytical Methods in Electromagnetics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
895 Views
17 Pages

Delineation of Concealed Copper–Cobalt Mineralization Targets Using Semi-Airborne Transient Electromagnetic Data in the Kambove Mining District, Democratic Republic of the Congo

  • Yanbo Wang,
  • Xin Wu,
  • Guoqiang Xue,
  • Yufei Gao and ,
  • Yusuo Zhao,
  • Song Cui,
  • Xiaoyin Ma,
  • Junjie Xue and
  • Nannan Zhou
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

13 July 2026

As supply risks for cobalt and other critical metals increase, detecting concealed orebodies in mature mining districts has become increasingly important for resource renewal. The Ksignal area, located on the margin of the Kambove mining district in...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Airborne and Semi-Airborne Induced Polarization Observation Methods and Techniques for Mineral Exploration)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,657 Views
12 Pages

Transportation has become a key bottleneck which restricts economic development in Western China. However, during the construction of the western railway, the permafrost problem has plagued railway construction on the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau, and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computational Electromagnetics and Its Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,635 Views
20 Pages

26 December 2022

Cooperative inversion is a powerful underground imaging technique that can overcome the limitations of a single detection method. However, due to the different grid divisions used by various geophysical methodologies, imposing structural constraints...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
919 Views
18 Pages

A Method of Deep Mineralization Potential Exploration Based on UAVs and Its Application in an Abandoned Mine in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

  • Xin Wu,
  • Guoqiang Xue,
  • Yufei Gao,
  • Yanbo Wang and ,
  • Yefei Li,
  • Zhaoming Qian,
  • Yusuo Zhao,
  • Junjie Xue,
  • Song Cui and
  • Nannan Zhou
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

16 April 2026

In recent years, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have increasingly become carrying platforms for Earth observation systems equipped with optical, microwave, and other types of sensors, primarily enabling high-resolution observations of above-ground t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Civil Applications of Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Third Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,165 Views
18 Pages

Estimation of Near-Surface Loosened Rock Mass Zones in Mountainous Areas by Using Helicopter-Borne and Drone-Borne Electromagnetic Method for Landslide Susceptibility Analysis

  • Atsuko Nonomura,
  • Shuichi Hasegawa,
  • Akira Jomori,
  • Minoru Okumura and ,
  • Haruki Ojyuku,
  • Hiroaki Hoshino,
  • Tetsuya Toyama,
  • Atsuyoshi Jomori and
  • Yoshiyuki Kaneda
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

25 June 2025

Mapping methods for loosened rock mass in mountainous areas are useful for risk management of landslide disasters. Depending on the type of aircraft and sensor, there are several different aerial electromagnetic measurement methods for estimating sub...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Remote Sensing and Geophysics Methods for Geomorphology Research)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,091 Views
19 Pages

Modern Capabilities of Semi-Airborne UAV-TEM Technology on the Example of Studying the Geological Structure of the Uranium Paleovalley

  • Ayur Bashkeev,
  • Alexander Parshin,
  • Ilya Trofimov,
  • Sergey Bukhalov and ,
  • Danila Prokhorov and
  • Nikolay Grebenkin
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

10 June 2025

Unmanned systems provide significant prospects for improving the efficiency of electromagnetic geophysical exploration in mineral prospecting and geological mapping, as they can significantly increase the productivity of field surveys by accelerating...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Geoelectricity and Electrical Methods in Mineral Exploration)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,324 Views
12 Pages

14 August 2024

The probing depth of the transient electromagnetic method (TEM) refers to the depth range at which the underground conductivity changes can be effectively detected. It typically ranges from tens of meters to several kilometers and is influenced by fa...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Deep Learning and Artificial Intelligence Methods: 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,254 Views
17 Pages

16 April 2025

The semi-airborne transient electromagnetic (SATEM) method has garnered increasing attention and research interest due to its superior detection depth and high efficiency. Theoretically, the SATEM method employs a long straight grounded wire as its t...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,761 Views
22 Pages

24 June 2022

The borehole transient electromagnetic (TEM) method can be useful in deep mineral exploration to detect blind ore bodies beside or below the borehole, and is especially adapted to finding small-scale, deep, rich ore bodies. In this method a transmitt...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Electromagnetic Exploration: Theory, Methods and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,202 Views
17 Pages

21 May 2024

In geophysical inversion issues, the Jacobian matrix computation takes the greatest time, and it is the most significant factor limiting the inversion’s calculation speed. We think that the correctness of the inverse problem is determined by th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
2,996 Views
17 Pages

Three-Dimensional Inversion of Multi-Component Semi-Airborne Electromagnetic Data in an Undulating Terrain for Mineral Exploration

  • Zhiyuan Ke,
  • Yunhe Liu,
  • Yang Su,
  • Luyuan Wang and ,
  • Bo Zhang,
  • Xiuyan Ren,
  • Zhihao Rong and
  • Xinpeng Ma
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

5 February 2023

For the mineral exploration in complex terrain areas, the semi-airborne transient electromagnetic (SATEM) technology is one of the most powerful methods due to its high efficiency and low cost. However, since the mainstream SATEM systems only observe...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Using Geophysical Inversion for Mineral Exploration: Methods and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,628 Views
22 Pages

A lack of closely spaced datasets on layer elevations, aquifer parameters, identification of areas with high recharge potential, dominant conduit porosity zones, and well defined boundary conditions hampers the ability of groundwater models to produc...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Inland and Coastal Karst Aquifers: Functioning, Monitoring and Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
404 Views
27 Pages

5 August 2026

Three-dimensional inversion of airborne transient electromagnetic (ATEM) data is computationally demanding because it requires repeated forward simulations and sensitivity calculations. Previous Krylov-subspace studies have substantially improved the...

  • Review
  • Open Access
637 Views
33 Pages

Sensing Platform Technologies of the Transient Electromagnetic Method for Urban Underground Space Detection: Challenges and Advances

  • Hanlin Guo,
  • Qiyan Gu,
  • Jian Xu,
  • Haotian Shi and ,
  • Leixiang Bian and
  • Zhan Xu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

23 August 2026

As urban underground spaces and infrastructure development accelerate, subsurface elements such as buried pipelines, integrated utility tunnels, subway tunnels, cavity defects, and deep-seated hidden hazards become increasingly intertwined. Consequen...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensing Technologies for Geophysical Monitoring)
  • Article
  • Open Access
736 Views
31 Pages

18 January 2026

Accurately assessing collapse risks of high-elevation, concealed rock mass blocks within the steep cliffs of Bijiashan, Three Gorges Reservoir Area, is challenging. This study employed a multidimensional approach—integrating airborne Light Dete...

(This article belongs to the Section Water Erosion and Sediment Transport)