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Presentation: Interactive 2D magnetic inversion: a tool for aiding forward modeling and testing geological hypotheses

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posted on 2013-03-11, 16:28 authored by Valeria C. F. BarbosaValeria C. F. Barbosa, João B. C. Silva

Slides for the oral presentation " Interactive 2D magnetic inversion: a tool for aiding forward modeling and testing geological hypotheses" presented at the SEG International Exposition and Seventy-Sixth Annual Meeting in New
Orleans, Louisiana, USA.


Abstract

We present a method for inverting magnetic data with interfering anomalies produced by multiple complex 2D magnetic sources having arbitrary shapes and known magnetization vectors. Ourmethod is stable and can recover a complex 2D magnetization distribution, leading to a reliable delineation of sectionally homogeneous sources with complex shapes. Our method, although similar to interactive forward modeling, is unique in that it automatically fits the observations and only requires that the interpreter know the outlines of the sources expressed by simple geometric elements such as points and line segments. Each geometric element operates as a skeletal outline of a particular homogeneous section of the magnetic source to be reconstructed. Also, the interpreter can define the geometric elements interactively without worrying about data fitting because data are fit automatically. The examples with synthetic data illustrate the good
performance of the method in mapping the complex geometry of magnetic sources. The solution sensitivity to uncertainties in the a priori information shows that to produce good results, the uncertainty on the magnetization intensity of each homogeneous extent of the source should be smaller than 40%.Awrong magnetization vector direction can be detected easily because it often leads to poor data fitting and to estimated sources with abrupt borders. The method is also applied to two sets of real data from the Northwest Ore Body at Iron Mountain Mine, Missouri, and the Hatton-Rockall Basin in the northeast Atlantic Ocean. The estimated magnetization distribution in all tests demonstrates a good correlation of estimated magnetic sources with corresponding known geologic features.

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