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Davis, A.C. | Ley-Cooper, Y. | Kirkegaard, C.
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An extensive AEM survey recently commissioned by Geoscience Australia involved the use of two separate SkyTEM helicopter airborne electromagnetic (AEM) systems collecting data simultaneously. In order to ensure data consistency between the two systems, we follow the Danish example (conceived by the hydrogeophysics group from Aarhus University) of using a hover test site to calibrate the AEM data to a known reference. Since 2001, Denmark has employed a national test site for all electromagnetic (EM) instruments that are used there, including the SkyTEM system. The Lyngby test-site is recognised as a well-understood site with a well-described layered-earth structure of 5 layers. The accepted electrical structure model of the site acts as the reference model, and all instruments are brought to it in order to produce consistent results from all EM systems. Using a ground-based time-domain electromagnetic (TEM) system which has been calibrated at the Lyngby test site, we take EM measurements at a site selected here in Australia. With sufficient information of the instrument, we produce a layered-earth model that becomes the reference model for the two AEM systems used in the survey. We then bring the SkyTEM systems to the hover site and take soundings at multiple altitudes. From the hover test data and the ground based model, we calculate an optimal time shift and amplitude scale factor to ensure that both systems are able reproduce the accepted reference model. Conductivity sections produced with and without calibration factors show noticeably different profiles.
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