Under the effects of remanent magnetization, total magnetization direction is different from geomagnetic field direction, which makes magnetic data processing and interpretation complexity. In this paper, we present a new approach for estimating the total magnetization direction of sources via cross-correlation between the reduced-to-pole anomaly and the normalized source strength (who is less sensitive to remanent magnetization). The geomagnetic field direction is used to calculated the normalized source strength, while various assumed total magnetization directions are used to calculated the RTP anomalies. The maximum correlation between the RTP anomalies and the normalized corresponds to the estimated total magnetization direction. Test on synthetic data showed that the new approach is simple and effective.

We presented 3D fusion technique based on wavelet transform for analyzing 3D dataset of gravity and magnetic inversion intuitively and comprehensively. The technique expands the conventional 2D image fusion technique based on wavelet transform to 3D case, including using 3D wavelet decomposition and reconstruction to replace 2D ones and reforming the fusion rules of high and low frequency components in 3D field. The disciplines of some crucial parameters related to the 3D fusion technique were provided, so that bring some convenient to use this techinique. The synthetic data test showed that the 3D fusion technique is effetive and reliable.

Total magnetic intensity (TMI) data is an important data for understanding the seafloor spreading of the South China Sea. In this paper, we studied to denoise the TMI data in the ocean subbasin of the SCS by using various filtering techniques. Based on the noise features occured in the data, we utilize the directional filter to reject noise of NS direction, and then apply the anisotropic diffusion filter to further elliminate the bead-like artifacts. The denoised result presents a well conherence of magnetic lineations in the ocean basin. The magnetic lineaments trend to nearly EW in the eastern subbasin while NE in southwestern subbasin. The intensity of the magnetic lineaments in the eastern subbasin is stronger than that in the southwestern subbasin.