Inversion and inference of geophysical data

矿藏通常埋在掩体之下，需要地球物理方法来发现它们。每次地球物理调查都提供有关特定物理性质的信息，通常进行许多不同的调查以提供有关地下的更完整信息。在过去的二十年里，我们已经开发出了从单个地球物理调查中反演数据的方法，以生成物理性质分布的三维模型。我们现在可以反演重力、磁、直流电阻率、感应极化、频率和时域电磁数据，以恢复密度、磁化率、可充电性和电导率的三维分布。有了这个基础，我们现在可以专注于其他研究问题。在这项研究中，我们解决了两个这样的问题：(a)如何设计一个具有成本效益的调查，并回答感兴趣的问题；(b)如何构建一个与所有可用的地球物理和地质知识兼容的地球模型解决方案。在这两个领域取得的进展将使勘探更加有效，并继续使加拿大在涉及地下调查的矿物勘探和其他应用地球科学方面保持领先地位。

Mineral deposits are often buried beneath a cover and geophysical methods are required to discover them. Each geophysical survey provides information about a specific physical property and generally a number of different surveys are carried out to provide more complete information about the subsurface. Over the last two decades we have developed methods to invert data from individual geophysical surveys to generate 3 dimensional models of the physical property distribution. We can now invert gravity, magnetic, DC resistivity, Induced Polarization, and frequency and time domain electromagnetic data to recover 3D distributions of density, magnetic susceptibility, chargeability and electrical conductivity. With this foundation we can now focus upon other research problems. In this research we address two such problems: (a) how to design a survey that is cost effective and answers the question of interest and (b) how to construct an earth model solution that is compatible with all available geophysical and geological knowledge. Progress made in these two areas will make exploration more effective and continue to keep Canada at the forefront of mineral exploration and other applied earth sciences that involve subsurface investigations.