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Computers & Geosciences 35 (2009) 1369–1378
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Microsoft C#.NET program and electromagnetic depth sounding
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K. Prabhakar Rao, G. Ashok Babu
National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad 500007, India
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Article history: A program, in the C# (C Sharp) language with Microsoft.NET Framework, is developed to compute the
Received 17 August 2006 normalized vertical magnetic field of a horizontal rectangular loop source placed on the surface of an
Received in revised form n-layered earth. The field can be calculated either inside or outside the loop. Five C# classes with
1 December 2008
member functions in each class are, designed to compute the kernel, Hankel transform integral,
Accepted 3 December 2008
coefficients for cubic spline interpolation between computed values and the normalized vertical
magnetic field. The program computes the vertical magnetic field in the frequency domain using the
Keywords: integral expressions evaluated by a combination of straightforward numerical integration and the
C# (C Sharp) language classes digital filter technique. The code utilizes different object-oriented