摘要:
Apparatus is provided which may be made portable and is calibrated to provide direct readings of terrain conductivity. Transmitter and receiver coils are separated by less than one tenth of the electrical skin depth in terrain having a maximum conductivity to be measured, at the frequency of alternating current signal applied to the transmitter coil, and the signals picked up by the receiver coil are processed to cancel received signal components in phase with the transmitted signal and amplify a received quadrature component so as to provide a direct indication of ground conductivity. The in-phase component received direct from the transmitter coil is cancelled by a preset equal and opposite component, and the in-phase component of the secondary signal received from the terrain is substantially cancelled by a form of negative feedback, in order to avoid swamping of the wanted signal. Optionally, the negative feedback is disabled and the in-phase component is displayed in order to provide an indication of the magnetic susceptibility of the terrain being surveyed.
摘要:
A method for surveying terrain uses transient magnetic fields transmitted from a coil in plane parallel to and above the terrain, transient voltage response from vertically spaced receiver coils coaxial with and parallel to the transmitter coil being processed to detect highly conductive objects buried in the terrain, with the ratio of the response of the coils optionally being used to estimate the depth of objects. The responses from the coils are scaled in a predetermined ratio to provide cancellation of the response from objects in a layer of terrain at a particular depth, which layer may be at the surface to remove surface responses, or beneath the surface so as to allow surface objects to be differentiated from deeper objects by providing responses of opposite polarity.