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Airborne Electromagnetic Go-Map for the Paterson Region, WA and Pine Creek, NT

Geoscience Australia (GA) has recently completed two regional-scale Airborne Electromagnetic (AEM) surveys: one in the Paterson Region, WA; and the other in the Pine Creek region, NT. These surveys provide AEM data at line spacings of 200 m to 6 km covering an area greater than 110 000 km2. The surveys were designed to promote more detailed investigations by the mineral exploration industry. An inherent risk in using AEM surveys is that the depth of penetration of the primary electromagnetic field is highly variable. Although forward modelling is undertaken before the AEM campaign, the depth to which we can reliably invert the AEM signal to generate conductivity models is not known until after the survey is flown.


In order to estimate the penetration depth of the AEM surveys, we calculate the depth of investigation (DOI) based on the GA layered-earth inversion algorithm, which is influenced by both conductivity measurements and reference model assumptions. We define the DOI as the maximum depth at which the inversion is influenced more by the conductivity data than the reference model. We present the DOI as a 2D grid across both the Paterson and Pine Creek AEM surveys. Labelled the 'AEM go-map', the DOI grid helps to promote AEM exploration by decreasing risk when industry undertakes follow-up surveys within these regions.

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Identification info

Date (Publication)
2010-01-01T00:00:00
Citation identifier
Geoscience Australia Persistent Identifier/https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/70228

Cited responsible party
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Author

Hutchinson, D.K.

1
Author

Roach, I.C.

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Author

Costelloe, M.T.

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Point of contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Custodian

MNHD

Owner

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

Custodian

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

Voice
Topic category
  • Geoscientific information

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Maintenance and update frequency
Unknown

Resource format

Title

Product data repository: Various Formats

Website

Data Store directory containing the digital product files

Data Store directory containing one or more files, possibly in a variety of formats, accessible to Geoscience Australia staff only for internal purposes

Keywords
  • External Publication

  • Conference Paper

Theme
  • AEM

Theme
  • Airborne Electromagnetics

Theme
  • mineral exploration

Theme
  • geophysics

Keywords
  • AU-NT

  • AU-WA

Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC)
  • Earth Sciences

Keywords
  • Published_External

Resource constraints

Title

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence

Alternate title

CC-BY

Edition

4.0

Website

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/

Access constraints
License
Use constraints
License

Resource constraints

Title

Australian Government Security ClassificationSystem

Edition date
2018-11-01T00:00:00
Website

https://www.protectivesecurity.gov.au/Pages/default.aspx

Classification
Unclassified
Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Distribution Information

Distributor contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Distributor

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

Voice
OnLine resource

Download the file (pdf)

Download the file (pdf)

Distribution format
  • pdf

Resource lineage

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Unknown

Hierarchy level
Non geographic dataset
Other

External Publication

Description

Source data not available.

Metadata constraints

Title

Australian Government Security ClassificationSystem

Edition date
2018-11-01T00:00:00
Website

https://www.protectivesecurity.gov.au/Pages/default.aspx

Classification
Unclassified

Metadata

Metadata identifier
urn:uuid/a05f7892-f94f-7506-e044-00144fdd4fa6

Title

GeoNetwork UUID

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8
Contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Point of contact

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

Voice

Type of resource

Resource scope
Non geographic dataset
Name

nonGeographicDataset

Alternative metadata reference

Title

Geoscience Australia - short identifier for metadata record with

uuid

Citation identifier
eCatId/70228

Metadata linkage

https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/a05f7892-f94f-7506-e044-00144fdd4fa6

Date info (Revision)
2018-04-20T06:19:47
Date info (Creation)
2010-03-16T00:00:00

Metadata standard

Title

AU/NZS ISO 19115-1:2014

Metadata standard

Title

ISO 19115-1:2014

Metadata standard

Title

ISO 19115-3

Title

Geoscience Australia Community Metadata Profile of ISO 19115-1:2014

Edition

Version 2.0, September 2018

Citation identifier
https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/122551

 
 

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W


Keywords

AEM Airborne Electromagnetics geophysics mineral exploration

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