The world’s first Ultra Wideband Magnetotelluric (MT) technology, that provides simultaneous recording with one set of sensors for full AMT and MT frequencies from 10,000 Hz to 50,000 seconds and also offers a much better resolution in the dead bands. A very compact and low power consumption system providing affordable field operations and intelligent field QA/QC and data processing solutions.
Magnetotellurics (MT) is a passive electromagnetic technique which uses natural time variations of the Earth's magnetic and electric fields to measure the electrical resistivity of the sub-surface. Electrical resistivity of rocks and minerals is an important physical property to measure as part of attempts to understand geological structure and processes. It varies by many orders of magnitude, from very resistive crystalline igneous rocks, to very conductive saline-filled sedimentary rocks. As measured by the magnetotelluric method, the resistivity obtained is a bulk property of a volume of Earth material and is associated with factors such as rock composition, porosity and permeability as well as rock fluid composition and temperature.
The Earth's magnetic field varies continuously in both time and space. By measuring at ground level sites time variations of the magnetic field and the electric field, the ratio of the electric and magnetic variations provides a measure of the electrical resistivity. Depth information is obtained by measuring the time variations over a range of frequencies. High frequencies penetrate the Earth to shallow depths only, while low frequencies penetrate deeper. Information is obtained from a few hundred metres depth to hundreds of kilometres depth.
The common applications and benefits of MT method are: