Detection and Mitigation of Drilling Hazards through Time-Domain Electromagnetic Transmitters and Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Receivers

An apparatus comprising a non-transitory, computer readable, storage medium that stores instructions that, when executed by at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to perform operations comprising:

• determining time-domain electromagnetic parameters;
• obtaining data at multiple heights by at least one unmanned aerial vehicle equipped with at least one receiver as a time-domain electromagnetic transmitter emits electromagnetic radiation based on the time-domain electromagnetic parameters;
• and
• fusing the obtained data to generate a subsurface model.

A system, comprising:

• one or more memory modules;
• one or more hardware processors communicably coupled to the one or more memory modules, the one or more hardware processors configured to execute instructions stored on the one or more memory models to perform operations comprising:
• determining time-domain electromagnetic parameters;
• obtaining data at multiple heights by at least one unmanned aerial vehicle equipped with at least one receiver as a time-domain electromagnetic transmitter emits electromagnetic radiation based on the time-domain electromagnetic parameters;
• and
• fusing the obtained data to generate a subsurface model.