| Abstract: | The results of a physical scale model study of the conventional mode of operation of fixed loop electromagnetic systems and an alternative mode called the tx-parallel mode in which traverses are run parallel to the long axis of the rectangular transmitter loop are presented. The results show that over thick or dipping conductors, the tx-parallel configuration provides coupling with the target which is comparable with that provided by the conventional configuration. In addition, the tx-parallel configuration is shown to provide more consistent indications of the direction and magnitude of conductor dip. Over wide conductors, where separate conventional surveys are needed to define the opposite edges of such conductors, it is shown that only a single tx-parallel survey is needed to locate both edges of the conductor. The tx-parallel results were found to allow better resolution of the individual anomalies due to closely spaced parallel conductors. The tx-parallel response of identical sheet conductors of opposite dip indicated that the response of the separate sheets could be recognized even when the two sheets were placed at zero separation. This was found to be due in part to spatial displacement of the individual current vortices within each conductor owing to their mutual repulsion. |
