3-dimensional airborne magnetic survey system and 3-dimensional airborne magnetic survey method using the same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10185048-B2
Application number	US-201414410632-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 8, 2014
Priority date	Dec 9, 2013
Publication date	Jan 22, 2019
Grant date	Jan 22, 2019

Abstract

The present invention relates to a 3-dimensional airborne magnetic survey system that includes an unmanned aerial vehicle for magnetic survey moving along coordinate areas desired to survey while varying altitudes for each of the coordinate areas, a magnetic survey unit mounted on the unmanned aerial vehicle for magnetic survey and surveying 3D magnetic data of the earth or strata according to the altitudes, a 3-dimensional magnetic data processing unit processing a inversion on the 3-dimensional magnetic data of the earth or the strata according to the altitude for each coordinate area, a VSAT interface, a wireless controller interacting with the VSAT interface, a flight control signal for controlling the unmanned aerial vehicle of magnetic survey, and a magnetic survey signal through an internal navigation program.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A 3-dimensional airborne magnetic survey system comprising:
an unmanned aerial vehicle to conduct a magnetic survey along coordinates of the earth or strata at various altitudes for each of the coordinates;
a magnetic survey unit mounted on the unmanned aerial vehicle to generate 3-dimensional magnetic data of the earth or strata at each of the various altitudes for each of the coordinates;
a 3-dimensional magnetic data processing unit to process an inversion on the 3-dimensional magnetic data of the earth or the strata according to the various altitudes by using 3-dimensional coordinates;
a very small aperture terminal (VSAT) interface; and
a wireless controller that interacts with the VSAT interface, receives the 3-dimensional magnetic data, and outputs, to the unmanned aerial vehicle, a flight control signal for controlling the unmanned aerial vehicle at each altitude, a survey point coordinate signal, and a magnetic survey signal through an internal navigation program,
wherein,
the wireless controller comprises an image information display unit that displays to a user the 3-dimensional magnetic data for each coordinate of the magnetic survey.

2. The 3-dimensional airborne magnetic survey system of claim 1 , wherein the unmanned aerial vehicle comprises:
a global positioning system (GPS) module; and
an altitude setting unit to vary the altitude for each coordinate according to an altitude control signal output from the wireless controller.

3. The 3-dimensional airborne magnetic survey system of claim 1 , wherein the 3-dimensional magnetic data processing unit comprises:
a 3-dimensional grid module that performs 3-dimensional gridding on the 3-dimensional magnetic data along a survey direction in a uniform interval; and
a 3-dimensional inversion processing unit that processes an inversion on the 3-dimensional magnetic data gridded 3-dimensionally to interpret.

4. The 3-dimensional airborne magnetic survey system of claim 1 , wherein the image information display unit comprises:
a touch screen that senses touches of the user in a plurality of sensing schemes; and
a control unit that selects one of touch signals sensed and created respectively with the plurality of sensing schemes on the basis of a type of an application being executed or a display state of the application,
wherein,
the plurality of sensing schemes comprises at least two selected from the group consisting of resistive, capacitive, surface acoustic wave, infrared, optical imaging, and strain gauge schemes.

5. A 3-dimensional airborne magnetic survey method using the 3-dimensional airborne magnetic survey system according to claim 1 , the method comprising:
a magnetic survey preparing step of setting, by the wireless controller, at least one coordinate area of the earth or strata desired to be surveyed, coordinates of survey points of each coordinate area, and various altitudes of the unmanned aerial vehicle for each coordinate;
a magnetic surveying step of surveying each coordinate area of the earth or strata for each altitude and generating 3-dimensional magnetic data of the earth or strata for each survey point in the coordinate area; and
a 3-dimensional magnetic data processing step of performing 3-dimensional gridding on the 3-dimensional magnetic data of the earth or strata surveyed according to the various altitudes at each coordinate along a survey direction in a uniform interval, and processing the inversion 3-dimensionally.

6. The 3-dimensional airborne magnetic survey method of claim 5 , wherein
the 3-dimensional magnetic data processing step comprises:
a 3-dimensional gridding step of performing 3-dimensional gridding on the 3-dimensional magnetic data along the survey direction in the uniform interval; and
a 3-dimensional inversion processing step of processing 3-dimensional inversion on the 3-dimensional magnetic data gridded 3-dimensionally.

7. The 3-dimensional airborne magnetic survey method of claim 5 , further comprising an image information displaying step of displaying to the user the 3-dimensional magnetic data for each coordinate area through the image information display unit.

8. A non-transitory computer readable medium with a computer readable and executable program instructions thereon, which, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to effect a method, the method comprising:
a magnetic survey preparing step of setting, by a wireless controller, one or more coordinate areas of the earth or strata desired to be surveyed, coordinates of survey points of each coordinate area, and various altitudes of an unmanned aerial vehicle for each coordinate;
a magnetic surveying step of surveying each coordinate area of the earth or strata for at each altitude and generating 3-dimensional magnetic data of the earth or strata for each survey point in the coordinate area; and
a 3-dimensional magnetic data processing step of performing 3-dimensional gridding on the 3-dimensional magnetic data of the earth or strata surveyed according to the various altitudes for each coordinate along a survey direction in a uniform interval, and processing the inversion 3-dimensionally.

Assignees

• Korea Inst Geoscience & Mineral Resources

Inventors

• Park Gye Soon
• Cho Seong Jun

Classifications

• G01V3/16 Primary

  specially adapted for use from aircraft (G01V3/165 - G01V3/175 take precedence) · CPC title

• G01V3/38

  Processing data, e.g. for analysis, for interpretation, for correction · CPC title

• G01V3/165 Primary

  operating with magnetic or electric fields produced or modified by the object or by the detecting device (with electromagnetic waves G01V3/17) · CPC title

• G01V3/40

  specially adapted for measuring magnetic field characteristics of the earth · CPC title