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An Improved Analytic Signal Technique for the Depth and Structural Index from 2D Magnetic Anomaly Data

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This paper presents a new inversion method for the interpretation of 2D magnetic anomaly data, which uses the combination of the analytic signal and its total gradient to estimate the depth and the nature (structural index) of an isolated magnetic source. However, our proposed method is sensitive to noise. In order to lower the effect of noise, we apply upward continuation technique to smooth the anomaly. Tests on synthetic noise-free and noise corrupted magnetic data show that the new method can successfully estimate the depth and the nature of the causative source. The practical application of the technique is applied to measured magnetic anomaly data from Jurh area, northeast China, and the inversion results are in agreement with the inversion results from Euler deconvolution of the analytic signal.

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    Guoqing Ma & Xiaojuan Du

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Ma, G., Du, X. An Improved Analytic Signal Technique for the Depth and Structural Index from 2D Magnetic Anomaly Data. Pure Appl. Geophys. 169, 2193–2200 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00024-012-0484-6

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