MicEMD: Open-source toolbox for electromagnetic modeling, inversion, and classification in underground metal target detection

Abstract

The development and improvement of electromagnetic underground metal target detection methods can be implemented by a framework that is experimental supporting, modular, and extensible. In this paper, we organize the components of electromagnetic underground metal target detection in a comprehensive, modular, and extensible framework. Furthermore, we present an open-source toolbox in Python called MicEMD (Modeling, Inversion, and Classification in ElectroMagnetic Detection, https://github.com/UndergroundDetection/MICEMD). The graphical user interface (GUI) and the library with a Python application programming interface (API) are contained in MicEMD. Included in MicEMD are staggered frequency-domain and time-domain electromagnetic forward modeling, least-squares inversion, and data-based classification methods at present. MicEMD’s capabilities are presented by two synthetic case studies. The first example shows the application of frequency-domain inversion. The second example shows the application of time-domain classification. It is anticipated that MicEMD offers a flexible tool in electromagnetic underground metal target detection.

Keywords

• Open-source
• Underground metal target detection
• Inversion
• Classification
• Electromagnetic induction (EMI)
• Extensibility