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Determination of the Strike and the Dip of a Line Source Using Gravity Gradient Tensor

중력 변화율 텐서를 이용한 선형 이상체의 주향과 경사 결정

  • Rim, Hyoungrea (Development of Exploration Geophysics & Mining Engineering, Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources) ;
  • Jung, Hyun-Key (Development of Exploration Geophysics & Mining Engineering, Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources)
  • 임형래 (한국지질자원연구원 탐사개발연구실) ;
  • 정현기 (한국지질자원연구원 탐사개발연구실)
  • Received : 2014.10.30
  • Accepted : 2014.11.10
  • Published : 2014.12.31
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Abstract

In this paper, the automatic determination algorithm of strike and dip of a line source using gravity gradient on a single profile is proposed. In general, the gravity gradient tensor due to a line source has only two independent components because of its 2-Dimensional (2-D) characteristics. However, if the line source has the strike and dip regarding the observation profile, it comes to have five independent components. The proposed algorithm of the determination both strike and dip is based on the rotational transform that converts full gravity gradient tensor to reduced 2-D gravity gradient tensor. The least-square method is applied in order to find optimum rotational angles that make one of the row components minimalized simultaneously. The two synthetic cases of a line source are represented; one has strike only and the other has both strike and dip. This study finds that the automatic determination method using gravity gradient tensor can find directions of a line source in each case.

이 논문에서는 한 개의 측선에서 측정된 중력 변화율 텐서를 이용하여 선형 이상체의 주향과 경사를 자동 결정하는 알고리즘을 제시한다. 선형 이상체의 중력 변화율은 측선에 수직으로 배열되어 있는 경우 이차원 효과를 보이므로, 이론적으로 두 개의 독립 성분을 제외하고는 값을 갖지 아니한다. 반면 주향과 경사를 가지는 선형 이상체는 5개의 독립 성분을 가지게 된다. 이와 같은 선형 이상체가 가지는 중력 변화율 텐서의 이차원 특성을 활용하여 5개의 독립 성분 중 3개가 동시에 최소 값이 되도록 하는 회전변환의 변환각은 곧바로 선형 이상체의 주향과 경사를 의미한다. 이 논문에서는 최소자승법을 이용하여 5개의 중력 변화율 성분 중 3개를 최소로 하는 변환 행렬 각을 구하였고 이를 이용하여 선형 이상체의 주향과 경사를 자동 결정할 수 있음을 보였다. 이 논문에서는 모델 계산을 통하여 주향만 있는 경우와 주향과 경사 모두를 가지는 경우에 대하여 각각의 방향각들을 자동 결정할 수 있음을 보였다.

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