An overview of the SkyTEM airborne EM system with Australian examples
James Reid A D , Andrew Fitzpatrick B and Kate Godber CA Geoforce Division of Groundprobe, 1/288 Victoria Road, Malaga, WA 6090, Australia.
B CSIRO Earth Science and Resource Engineering, PO Box 1130, Bentley, WA 6102, Australia.
C Geoforce Division of Groundprobe, 8 Hockings Street, South Brisbane, Qld 4101, Australia.
D Corresponding author. Email: james.reid@groundprobe.com
Preview 2010(145) 26-37 https://doi.org/10.1071/PVv2010n145p26
Published: 14 April 2010
Acknowledgements
Andrew Bisset from U3O8 Ltd is thanked for permission to publish the Mad Gap example. The Ord River project was co-funded by the Australian Government in partnership with the Western Australian Government and undertaken under the auspices of the National Action Plan for Salinity and Water Quality, and managed by Ord Irrigation Cooperative (OIC) for the WA Rangelands Natural Resource Management Group. Perilya Ltd kindly provided access to their tenements for acquisition of the Flying Doctor dataset. JR would also like to thank Max Halkjaer and Per Gisselø of SkyTEM Aps, Denmark; Esben Auken and Andrea Viezzoli of Aarhus Geophysics Aps Denmark, and Niels Christensen of EMModel, Denmark for technical discussions over the last few years. Tim Munday (CSIRO), Dean Rogers (Perilya Ltd) and Max Halkjaer are thanked for their comments on an earlier draft of this article.
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