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  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,890 Views
22 Pages

7 September 2019

We have developed a mineral exploration method for the joint inversion of 2D gravity gradiometry and magnetotelluric (MT) data based on data-space and normalized cross-gradient constraints. To accurately explore the underground structure of complex m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,762 Views
19 Pages

Atom-interferometry gravity gradiometry has been developed as a promising technique for future gravity gradiometric missions after GOCE due to its greater sensitivity in micro-gravity environments and constant performance over the measurement bandwid...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,024 Views
19 Pages

An extensive review of past work on relativistic gravimetry, gradiometry and chronometric geodesy is given. Then, general theoretical tools are presented and applied for the case of a stationary parameterized post-Newtonian metric. The special case o...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,613 Views
23 Pages

23 June 2023

Full tensor magnetic gradiometry (FTMG) is becoming a practical method for exploration due to recent advancements in superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) technology. This paper introduces an efficient method of 3D modeling and inversio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,456 Views
24 Pages

Characterizing Subsurface Environments Using Borehole Magnetic Gradiometry

  • Mohammad Forman Asgharzadeh,
  • Hasan Ghasemzadeh,
  • Ralph von Frese and
  • Kamran Ighani

31 December 2024

Forward modeling the magnetic effects of an inferred source is the basis of magnetic anomaly inversion for estimating subsurface magnetization parameters. This study uses numerical least-squares Gauss–Legendre quadrature (GLQ) integration to ev...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,213 Views
14 Pages

25 April 2019

In the process of airborne gravity gradiometry for the full-tensor airborne gravity gradiometer (FTAGG), the attitude of the carrier and the fuel mass will seriously affect the accuracy of gravity gradiometry. A self-gradient is the gravity gradient...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
4,082 Views
20 Pages

31 March 2021

Conventional 3D magnetic inversion methods are based on the assumption that there is no remanent magnetization, and the inversion is run for magnetic susceptibility only. This approach is well-suited to targeting mineralization; however, it ignores t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,184 Views
16 Pages

An Integrated GPR and Magnetometry Survey of the Roman Fort of Aquis Querquennis (Northwest Iberia)

  • Tiago do Pereiro,
  • João Fonte,
  • Jesús García Sánchez,
  • Filipe Ribeiro and
  • Santiago Ferrer Sierra

20 May 2025

A comprehensive geophysical survey, combining magnetic gradiometry and ground-penetrating radar (GPR), was undertaken at the Roman fort of Aquis Querquennis to map buried archaeological structures, including potential walls and internal divisions, wi...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,270 Views
21 Pages

4 September 2023

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...

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  • Open Access
18 Citations
9,102 Views
15 Pages

1 July 2024

The use of magnetometers arranged in a gradiometer configuration offers a practical and widely used solution, particularly in archaeological applications where the sources of interest are generally shallow. Since magnetic anomalies due to archaeologi...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,933 Views
35 Pages

Temporal Gravity Signals in Reprocessed GOCE Gravitational Gradients

  • Betty Heller,
  • Frank Siegismund,
  • Roland Pail,
  • Thomas Gruber and
  • Roger Haagmans

23 October 2020

The reprocessing of the satellite gravitational gradiometry (SGG) data from the Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) satellite mission in 2018/2019 considerably reduced the low-frequency noise in the data, leading to reduc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,656 Views
17 Pages

24 March 2021

Geophysical prospecting methods have been extensively used to outline buried antiquities in terrestrial sites. Despite the frequent application of these mapping and imaging approaches for the detection of archaeological relics in deep-water marine en...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,243 Views
26 Pages

The Messapic Site of Muro Leccese: New Results from Integrated Geophysical and Archaeological Surveys

  • Catia Bianco,
  • Lara De Giorgi,
  • Maria T. Giannotta,
  • Giovanni Leucci,
  • Francesco Meo and
  • Raffaele Persico

21 June 2019

The regular application of geophysical survey techniques to evaluate archaeological sites is well established as a method for locating, defining, and mapping buried archaeological materials. However, it is not always feasible to apply a range of diff...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,248 Views
26 Pages

Cold Atom Interferometry for Enhancing the Radio Science Gravity Experiment: A Phobos Case Study

  • Michael Plumaris,
  • Dominic Dirkx,
  • Christian Siemes and
  • Olivier Carraz

24 June 2022

Interplanetary missions have typically relied on Radio Science (RS) to recover gravity fields by detecting their signatures on the spacecraft trajectory. The weak gravitational fields of small bodies, coupled with the prominent influence of confoundi...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,143 Views
40 Pages

31 July 2024

The newly constructed Bois d’Arc Lake Reservoir in Fannin County, Texas, USA, inevitably flooded a large ground surface area (67.34 km2) when the reservoir began impounding water in April 2021. Inside this (now) flooded area, land-based archaeo...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,420 Views
14 Pages

15 December 2020

Compared with airborne gravimetry, a technique frequently used to infer the seafloor topography at places inaccessible to ship soundings due to the presence of ice shelf or ice mélange, airborne gravity gradiometry inherently could achieve hig...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
6,712 Views
30 Pages

Beyond Never-Never Land: Integrating LiDAR and Geophysical Surveys at the Johnston Site, Pinson Mounds State Archaeological Park, Tennessee, USA

  • Edward R. Henry,
  • Alice P. Wright,
  • Sarah C. Sherwood,
  • Stephen B. Carmody,
  • Casey R. Barrier and
  • Christopher Van de Ven

23 July 2020

Archaeologists often use near-surface geophysics or LiDAR-derived topographic imagery in their research. However, rarely are the two integrated in a way that offers a robust understanding of the complex historical palimpsests embedded within a social...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,674 Views
35 Pages

OpenMP Implementation of a Novel Potential-Field-Data Source-Growth-Based Inversion Approach for 3D Salt Imaging in Deepwater Gulf of Mexico

  • Naín Vera,
  • Carlos Couder-Castañeda,
  • Jorge Hernández,
  • Alfredo Trujillo-Alcántara,
  • Mauricio Orozco-del-Castillo and
  • Carlos Ortiz-Aleman

13 July 2020

Potential-field-data imaging of complex geological features in deepwater salt-tectonic regions in the Gulf of Mexico remains an open active research field. There is still a lack of resolution in seismic imaging methods below and in the surroundings o...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,371 Views
18 Pages

9 March 2021

The output model of a rotating accelerometer gravity gradiometer (RAGG) established by the inertial dynamics method cannot reflect the change of signal frequency, and calibration sensitivity and self-gradient compensation effect for the RAGG is a ver...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,972 Views
17 Pages

Using a Multi-Proxy Approach to Detect and Date a Buried part of the Hellenistic City Wall of Ainos (NW Turkey)

  • Martin Seeliger,
  • Anna Pint,
  • Peter Frenzel,
  • Paula K. Weisenseel,
  • Ercan Erkul,
  • Dennis Wilken,
  • Tina Wunderlich,
  • Sait Başaran,
  • Heike Bücherl and
  • Helmut Brückner
  • + 4 authors

20 September 2018

Throughout mankind’s history, the need to secure and protect the home settlement was an essential one. This holds especially true for the city of Ainos (modern Enez) in Turkish Thrace. Due to its continuous settlement history since the 7th/6th centur...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,177 Views
26 Pages

Reimagining the Development of Downtown Cahokia Using Remote Sensing Visualizations from the Western Edge of the Grand Plaza

  • J. Grant Stauffer,
  • Seth B. Grooms,
  • Lorraine W. Hu,
  • Joy Mersmann,
  • Tristram R. Kidder and
  • Edward R. Henry

27 January 2023

The distribution of mounds, plazas, and defensive palisades associated with Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site (CMSHS) defines the core urban environment of Eastern North America’s first American Indian city. The large mounds surrounding Cahoki...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
870 Views
26 Pages

A Scalable and Consistent Method for Multi-Component Gravity-Gradient Data Processing

  • Larissa Silva Piauilino,
  • Vanderlei Coelho Oliveira Junior and
  • Valeria Cristina Ferreira Barbosa

29 July 2025

We demonstrate the potential of using the convolutional equivalent layer to jointly process large gravity-gradient datasets. Based on the equivalent-layer principle, we assume a single fictitious physical property distribution on a planar layer can a...

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  • Open Access
560 Views
17 Pages

11 December 2025

Magnetic field measurements are essential for space science missions but are often contaminated by transient stray fields from spacecraft subsystems such as electrical and control units. Traditional mitigation approaches—including strict magnet...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,665 Views
19 Pages

Exploring the Consistency of Data Collected in Archaeological Geophysics: A Case Study from the Iron Age Hillfort of Villasviejas del Tamuja (Extremadura, Spain)

  • Carmen Pro,
  • Bento Caldeira,
  • Maria Teresa de Tena,
  • Cristina Charro,
  • Rui Jorge Oliveira,
  • José Fernando Borges and
  • Victorino Mayoral

20 June 2020

Different geophysical methods applied at the settlement of Villasviejas del Tamuja (Botija, Spain) have identified robust anomalies located at the same position, but some anomalies are reflected by only one method. Furthermore, analysing the spatial...

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  • Open Access
66 Citations
11,643 Views
21 Pages

20 February 2020

While archaeologists have long understood that thermal and multi-spectral imagery can potentially reveal a wide range of ancient cultural landscape features, only recently have advances in drone and sensor technology enabled us to collect these data...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,809 Views
15 Pages

3D Multicomponent Self-Potential Inversion: Theory and Application to the Exploration of Seafloor Massive Sulfide Deposits on Mid-Ocean Ridges

  • Zhongmin Zhu,
  • Chunhui Tao,
  • Zhigang Shan,
  • André Revil,
  • Zhaoyang Su,
  • Zuofu Nie,
  • Jinsong Shen,
  • Xianming Deng and
  • Jianping Zhou

17 August 2023

The marine self-potential (SP) method is currently playing an increasing role in the exploration and resource evaluation of seafloor massive sulfide (SMS) deposits. SP surveys are conducted using autonomous underwater vehicles (AUV), which yield mult...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,956 Views
17 Pages

14 October 2021

The magnetic gradient tensor provides a powerful tool for detecting magnetic bodies because of its ability to emphasize detailed features of the magnetic anomalies. To interpret field measurements obtained by magnetic gradiometry, the forward calcula...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,955 Views
23 Pages

17 October 2021

Airborne (or satellite) gravity measurement is a commonly used remote sensing method to obtain the underground density distribution. Airborne gravity gradiometry data have a higher horizontal resolution to shallower causative sources than airborne gr...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
10,873 Views
10 Pages

2 July 2016

Ground-penetrating radar processing and interpretation methods have been developed over time that usually follow a certain standard pathway, which leads from obtaining the raw reflection data to the production of amplitude slice-maps for three-dimens...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,803 Views
17 Pages

Inverse Filtering of Magnetic Prospection Data—A Gateway to the Social Structure of Cucuteni–Tripolye Settlements?

  • Natalie Pickartz,
  • Wolfgang Rabbel,
  • Knut Rassmann,
  • Robert Hofmann,
  • René Ohlrau,
  • Martin Thorwart,
  • Dennis Wilken,
  • Tina Wunderlich,
  • Mykhailo Videiko and
  • Johannes Müller

20 January 2022

Magnetic mapping is a common method for investigating archaeological sites. Typically, the magnetic field data are treated with basic signal improving processing followed by image interpretation to derive the location and outline of archaeological ob...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
20,802 Views
19 Pages

Fusion of Satellite Multispectral Images Based on Ground-Penetrating Radar (GPR) Data for the Investigation of Buried Concealed Archaeological Remains

  • Athos Agapiou,
  • Vasiliki Lysandrou,
  • Apostolos Sarris,
  • Nikos Papadopoulos and
  • Diofantos G. Hadjimitsis

The paper investigates the superficial layers of an archaeological landscape based on the integration of various remote sensing techniques. It is well known in the literature that shallow depths may be rich in archeological remains, which generate di...