Quantitative interpretations of potential fields: from parametric to geostructural recalculations

Abstract

The relevance. Need to development of an applied algorithm for combined interpretation of heterogeneous geophysical data based on unified physical analogy, focused on solving the inverse problem of potential theory. The wave approximation of the cross-section of mining massif fits into the paradigm of dissipative structuring of nonequilibrium media acts as a special case of the above analogy. The task of the study is to adapt this algorithm to recalculations of both potential and non-potential geofields. In the list of nonpotential geofields the remote sensing data and digital terrain model are the most interesting as the data with non-regulated access. Practical significance of the research is associated with the approbation of a family of algorithms in production projects of both geological and engineering nature. The aim. To minimize the family of equivalent solutions to the inverse problem by mutual verification of heterogeneous models of the anomaly-forming source. The objects. Development of the geofields combined interpretation algorithm and recalculation of geofields in depth for tracing elements of stratification and geological fractures. The methods. Formed by software and algorithmic development, which is based on deterministic analytical representations: computation of Cauchy integral, iterative application of direct solution, spectrum estimation. The results. Reduced to the set of parametric cross-sections derived with recalculations with minimum a priori geological information with final geological consideration. The combination of visualizations of analytical continuation, singular points and results of automated fitting admits the reconstruction of geostructural model of parametric cross-section with significant reliability. Extension of standard methods of quantitative interpretation by means of wave approximations includes quasi-seismic halftone visualizations verifying the mentioned reconstructions.

Keywords

• Interpretation
• analytical continuation
• singularity
• functional minimization
• wave approximation
• gradient filters