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Gravity
& Magnetics Research Consortium (GMRC)
GMRC
is an industry-funded research group formed in 1999 at the
Colorado School of Mines. The mandate of GMRC is to carry
out sponsored research in gravity and magnetic methods.
The research team consists of five associated faculty members,
a scientific advisor, and students who come from a broad
background and have an excellent track record. With this
diverse expertise, the group has been working on a wide
variety of problems ranging from theory, modeling, inversion,
and interpretation to field applications of gravity, gravity
gradient, and magnetic methods in oil and gas exploration.
The research team utilizes the latest developments in geophysical
inverse theory, applied mathematics, optimization, and modern
instrumentation. The ultimate goal is to bring together
the people and resources of academia and industry and develop
modern techniques that can be used to solve practical exploration
and production problems in petroleum exploration.
The
mission of GMRC consists of the following four objectives:
- Develop
new interpretation techniques for gravity, gravity gradient
and magnetic data
- Carry
out research with industry on problems of mutual interests
- Transfer
of technology to sponsors for practical applications
- Encourage
continued interest and support of students interested
in potential field studies
Since
the birth of GMRC, the group has tackled numerous problems
of practical importance, including but not limited to:
- processing
and inversion of the newly available gravity gradiometry
datasource depth estimation techniques
- inversion
of gravity data for base of salt and subsalt imaging
- binary
inversion of potential-field data
- interpretation
of magnetic data with remanent magnetization
A
list of these projects with details can be found under the
projects page.
GMRC
has also produced a number of software packages that have
been, or are being, transferred to our sponsors. Major effort
has been expended in transforming our research codes into
practically usable software through further development
and extensive testing. This enables direct transfer of technology
to industry for application to active exploration projects.
The included Graphic User Interface (GUI) enables the delivered
programs to be used directly in active exploration projects
without the need to integrate them into sponsors' existing
softwares. A list of these packages with detailed description
can be founded under the software section of the workshops/software
page.
Current
GMRC Sponsors are:
If
you are interested in receiving information about becoming
a GMRC sponsor, please contact us at cgem@mines.edu
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