From little things, big things grow.... or do they? a one-eyed view on airborne EM in environmental management over the last 20 years

Abstract

Through the mid to late 1980s the applications of airborne electromagnetics for environmental management was limited to small surveys, and in Australia their primary purpose was aimed at encouraging the wide take-up of this technology by the natural resource management community. The technology-led push fed off a growing national awareness of the threat of land salinisation and AEM was principally marketed as the panacea to this threat.