US 8,786,286 B2Granted

Bucking coil and B-field measurement system and apparatus for time domain electromagnetic measurements

AssigneeGeotech Airborne Limited

InventorsPetr Valentinovich Kuzmin, Edward Beverly Morrison

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Abstract

According to one example embodiment is a time domain electromagnetic (TDEM) geophysical survey system for producing a B-field measurement, comprising: a transmitter coil; a bucking coil positioned in a substantially concentric and coplanar orientation relative to the transmitter coil; a receiver coil positioned in a substantially concentric and coplanar orientation relative to the bucking coil; an electrical current source connected to the transmitter coil and bucking coil for applying a periodic current thereto; and a data collection system configured to receive a magnetic field time-derivative signal dB/dt from the receiver coil and integrate the magnetic field time-derivative signal dB/dt to generate, a magnetic B-field measurement, the transmitter coil, bucking coil and receiver coil being positioned relative to each other such that, at the location of the receiver coil, a magnetic field generated by the bucking coil has a cancelling effect on a primary magnetic field generated by the transmitter coil.

Claims6

Dependent claims

An electromagnetic measurement apparatus comprising:

(a) a transmitter coil;
(b) a bucking coil positioned substantially centrally within the transmitter coil;
(c) a receiver coil positioned substantially centrally within the bucking coil;
(d) a system of radial cables whereby the transmitter coil, bucking coil and receiver coil are connected in their relative positions;
(e) an external suspension system of one or more external cables connected to the transmitter frame;
and
(f) one or more suspension attachment cables attached to the external suspension system;
wherein the transmitter coil, bucking coil and receiver coil are positioned substantially concentrically relative to one another when the attachment cable is lifted vertically to a sufficient height to suspend the transmitter coil, bucking coil and receiver coil and the coils are positioned so as to function to achieve electromagnetic measurements to mitigate effects of residual currents in the transmitter coil during an off-time of the transmitter coil, the transmitter coil and the bucking coil each being flexible about a perimeter thereof
wherein the transmitter coil, the bucking coil and the receiver coil are each supported within a respective transmitter coil frame, bucking coil frame and receiver coil frame that are spaced apart from each other and interconnected by the radial cables.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.