APPLYING PSEUDOWAVE TRANSFORMATION IN TRANSIENT ELECTROMAGNETIC PROSPECTING FOR RECOGNITION OF INCLINED GEOLOGICAL BOUNDARIES

Abstract

Relevance. Transient electromagnetic soundings is the method in-demand of electric survey applied for mineral deposits prospecting. Modern geoelectric problems require the usage of multichannel devices. For such devices the processing and interpretation problem becomes very resource intensive. Thus, the further development of interpretation methods is highly recommended. One of the possible ways of such development is the usage of wavefield transformation for transient electromagnetic data. The main aim of the research is to apply the wavefield transformation to the transient electromagnetic data measured in multireceivers systems in conductive media with inclined boundary for obtaining new qualitative estimations for the geological media on study. Method of research is based on new numerical algorithms for the stable wavefiled transformations of transient electromagnetic soundings data. Input data for transformation checkout (calculated three-dimensional curves of transient electromagnetic field response) was received using MODEM3D software package, which is designed for direct modeling of transient electromagnetic fields. Results. Pseudowave transformations of transient electromagnetic soundings for the conductive media with inclined boundary were obtained. These pseudowave transformations are used to plot travel-time curves. The resulting sets of transformations allow allocating the outcrop of the inclined contact on the surface. It is established that overlapping sediments weaken the maxima of pseudowave transformations and reduce the possibility of exact localization of the outcrop of the inclined contact. The behavior of toroidal vertical currents depending on time in the media with inclined boundary was considered.

Keywords

• transient electromagnetic soundings
• pseudowave transform
• q-transform
• three-dimensional problem
• medium with inclined boundary
• hodograph