AAPG Studies in Geology No. 48 / SEG Geophysical References
Series No. 11, Chapter 13: Integrated Analysis of High-resolution
Aeromagnetic (HRAM) and RADARSAT-1 Imagery for Exploration in Mature and Frontier Basins, by
Zeev Berger, Jim Davies, and Robin T. Thompson, Pages 345
- 360
from:
AAPG Studies in Geology No. 48 /
SEG Geophysical References Series No. 11: Surface
Exploration Case Histories: Applications of Geochemistry, Magnetics, and Remote Sensing,
Edited by Dietmar Schumacher and Leonard A. LeSchack
Copyright © 2002 by The American Association of Petroleum Geologists and the
Society of Exploration Geophysicists. All rights reserved.
Chapter 13
Integrated Analysis of High-resolution Aeromagnetic (HRAM) and RADARSAT-1 Imagery for
Exploration in Mature and Frontier Basins
Zeev Berger
Image Interpretation Technologies, Inc.
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Jim Davies
Image Interpretation Technologies, Inc.
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Robin T. Thompson
Image Interpretation Technologies, Inc.
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
ABSTRACT
This paper illustrates the use of an integrated analysis of HRAM data and RADARSAT-1
images for detection and analysis of geologic structures in mature and frontier basins.
The HRAM images provide detailed information on basement structures, weakly magnetic
faults, and fracture systems in the sedimentary section, and other features that contain
magnetic material anomalous to the surrounding rock units. The RADARSAT-1 images are used
to constrain the analysis of the HRAM data, as well as to expand the interpretation into
areas that are not covered by the HRAM surveys. A series of examples supported by surface
and subsurface controls has been used here to illustrate our integrated approach to the
analysis of these two reconnaissance exploration tools.
