Land Magnetic Data Smoothing Methods - Comparative Study

Al-Humidan, Saad; Al‐Arifi, Nassir; Albassam, A.

doi:10.3997/2214-4609.201413813

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“…Applying this approach to an airborne survey, we computed the absolute value of the fourth difference (ABS(d4)). To emphasize the fact that the noise we are identifying with this approach is actually of anthropogenic origin and not the typical Hood and Teskey's 'spike' style 'noise' we applied a Savitzky-Golay third-order polynomial smoothing filter over a window of seven fiducials (seven points, third-order polynomial), which should be adequate to minimize the impact of any localized spikes (Savitzky & Golay, 1964;Baba et al, 2014;Alhumidan et al, 2015). The Savitzky-Golay approach was applied twice, and after each application we calculated ABS(d4), giving us three estimates.…”

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A multi‐parameter approach for recognition of anthropogenic noise in aeromagnetic data collected over populated areas: Erzgebirge, Germany

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Kirsch

et al. 2022

Geophysical Prospecting

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Aeromagnetic data are routinely acquired by mineral exploration programmes. The objective is to obtain a raster image of the spatial variations of magnetic field intensity; these variations are associated with mineralogical variations in the subsurface. When the survey is conducted in a populated area, much of the signal, however, may be associated with anthropogenic sources such as buildings and roads. Identification and minimization of the anthropogenic-related signal then are essential to derive a useful product for geological mapping. In this work, we examine a scalar magnetic dataset from Geyer, Saxony, and we apply five approaches for locating regions of anomalous anthropogenic signal: signal amplitude, absolute fourth difference, signal standard deviation, enhanced horizontal gradient and curvedness. All are shown to produce similar responses, and the summation of the five results compares favourably with the standard Keating kimberlite (circular anomaly) approach for detecting anthropogenic signals. Complications arise when geological features produce signals of similar amplitude to anthropogenic sources. Differentiating the probable origin of any specific pattern can be assessed by using a 2D shape index and increased flight height. Verification of an anthropogenic anomaly is achieved by comparison of anomalous solution grids with Geographic Information System-based reference data.

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