TY - JOUR
T1 - A novel ELF radar for major oil deposits
AU - Simpson, Jamesina J.
AU - Taflove, Allen
N1 - Funding Information:
Manuscript received April 19, 2005; revised June 26, 2005. This work was supported in part by the National Computational Science Alliance under Grant DMS040006N. The authors are with the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, Northwestern University, Technological Institute, Evanston, IL 60208 USA (e-mail: j-simpson@northwestern.edu). Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/LGRS.2005.856118
PY - 2006/1
Y1 - 2006/1
N2 - This letter proposes a novel extremely low frequency (ELF) radar for major oil deposits. Using our recently developed whole-Earth electromagnetic wave propagation model based upon the finite-difference time-domain method, we have determined that detection of the radial (vertical) component of the scattered H -field provides a sensitive means to detect oil fields that are located within several kilometers of the Earth's surface. As an example, we provide numerical simulations of ELF radar returns from a hypothetical Alaskan oil field excited by a 20-Hz pulse emitted from the former U.S. Navy site in Wisconsin. The proposed method would potentially provide means to rapidly and inexpensively conduct aerial surveys of thousands of square kilometers for significant oil deposits.
AB - This letter proposes a novel extremely low frequency (ELF) radar for major oil deposits. Using our recently developed whole-Earth electromagnetic wave propagation model based upon the finite-difference time-domain method, we have determined that detection of the radial (vertical) component of the scattered H -field provides a sensitive means to detect oil fields that are located within several kilometers of the Earth's surface. As an example, we provide numerical simulations of ELF radar returns from a hypothetical Alaskan oil field excited by a 20-Hz pulse emitted from the former U.S. Navy site in Wisconsin. The proposed method would potentially provide means to rapidly and inexpensively conduct aerial surveys of thousands of square kilometers for significant oil deposits.
KW - Aerial electromagnetic surveying
KW - Earth
KW - Electromagnetic sounding
KW - Extremely low frequency (ELF)
KW - Finite-difference time-domain (FDTD)
KW - Oil field
KW - SQUID magnetometer
KW - U.S. Navy Wisconsin Transmitter Facility (WTF)
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U2 - 10.1109/LGRS.2005.856118
DO - 10.1109/LGRS.2005.856118
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:31144448950
SN - 1545-598X
VL - 3
SP - 36
EP - 39
JO - IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters
JF - IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters
IS - 1
ER -