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| Title of paper | EarthDrone: National drone infrastructure for the Earth with cross-platform interoperability |
| List of authors | Heinson, G., Mitjanas, G., Pounds, P., Ley, D., Micklethwaite, S., Peacock, W. |
| Affiliation(s) | University of Adelaide Australia, University of Queensland Australia, University of Queensland Australia, University of Queensland Australia, University of Queensland Australia, University of Adelaide Australia |
| Summary | Land access to deploy EM equipment is often difficult, expensive and presents safety issues for field crew. Additionally, many areas of Australia, and globally, are culturally significant to indigenous communities with limited access. An alternative approach to using field vehicles is by drones, with remote deployment and recovery. There is no current commercial ‘off-the-shelf’ (COTS) drone technology that can be appropriated with the specification required of range, payload, and low user-involvement for deployment and recovery. So, the primary goal of the program has been to develop a platform to deploy a 1 kg geophysical instrument remotely over a range of ~10 km and being able to recover the instrument after some days of data acquisition. In this paper, we demonstrate the utility of geomagnetic depth sounding (GDS) measurements to delineate 2D structures (fault/shear zones) and 3D bodies beneath cover. The GDS approach is also simulated for 3D MT resistivity models of known mineral exploration targets in Australia to demonstrate the opportunity of using drones in future surveys. The drone platform could similarly be used for other geophysical deployments, passive seismics and gravity for example. |
| Session Keyword | 1.0 Instrumentation, data acquisition and processing |
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