signature=beac0b63bc86f61d1ed16c7b1a86b771,Comparison of EM61 Anomaly Response Signatures from Diffe...

摘要：

The U.S. Army Engineering & Support Center, Huntsville sponsored a project to collect andevaluate EM61 electromagnetic data over a controlled test site using 4 different coil configurations. Astandard EM61 MK1 with a 1m x 1m coil was used as the base-line coil configuration and is referred toas Configuration #1 in our evaluations. Response characteristics from three multi-coil configurationswere compared to this baseline. Configuration #2 consisted of two 1m x 0.5m coils configured toproduce a 1m x 1m footprint. Configuration #3 consisted of two 0.5m x 0.5m coils configured toproduce a 1m (across-track) x 0.5m (along-track) footprint. Configuration #4 consisted of four 0.5m x0.5m coils configured to produce a 1m x 1m footprint. Results from this evaluation demonstrate thatconsistent increases in the signal to noise ratios (SNR) can be achieved when more than one transmittercoil is used. The data also demonstrate that total transmitter foot-print size, and not individual receivercoil size, affects detection capabilities. No increase in anomaly resolution was observed in datasetscollected using smaller receiver coils. Our evaluations show that an average increase of 85% in SNR canbe achieved when more than one TX coil is used, and that SNR significantly decreases with smalleroverall TX coil sizes over deeper items.Standard, factory-produced EM61 MK1 units were used for all tests. All multi-coilconfigurations were synchronized to energize the transmit coils in parallel. The same electronicspackages and wiring harnesses were used for all tests; only the coils themselves were interchanged forthe individual tests. These testing parameters produced datasets with very similar responsecharacteristics and it is our conclusion that the observed differences in anomaly characteristics are duesolely to the different coil configurations.

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