This application claims priority to Chinese Patent Application No. 202311382139.2, filed on Oct. 24, 2023, the contents of which are hereby incorporated by reference.
The disclosure belongs to the application field of high-tech mineral exploration, and in particular to a method and a device for mobile rapid exploration of mineral resources, where the exploration method includes a system low-frequency motion noise suppression method based on correlation mapping.
Metal mineral resources, especially key metal mineral resources, are the core supporting conditions for the rapid development of national economy. Due to the complex geological and geomorphological conditions, more than ⅔ of the resources are buried in mountainous areas and forest areas with complex topography. In other words, most metal mineral resources are concentrated in deep underground or complex terrain areas, which have not been identified yet. Therefore, it is very important to develop high-tech suitable for deep metal mineral resources exploration in complex terrain areas to identify resource blind areas and realize mineral resources increase and storage.
A semi-airborne electromagnetic exploration method adopts a working mode of high-power emission on the ground and moving in the air to measure the response magnetic field, and is one of the important methods suitable for the metal mineral resources exploration in a second prospecting space in the deep underground or in the complex terrain areas, and has an advantage of deep and rapid exploration. However, the existing semi-airborne electromagnetic exploration system has not fully utilized advantages of ground-based emitters in deep exploration, mainly because the measured vertical magnetic field component signal of the semi-airborne system is weak and decays rapidly with an increase of receiving and sending distance, and the signal-to-noise ratio of the system is low due to the influence of motion noise. Therefore, it is very important to reduce the motion noise of the receiving system and improve the signal-to-noise ratio of the system to improve the exploration depth and accuracy of the system. A main noise source of the semi-airborne electromagnetic exploration system is the low-frequency motion noise introduced into the receiving magnetic sensor during the mobile measurement of the receiving system. The low-frequency motion noise is embodied in the following aspects: a magnetic sensor cuts a magnetic induction line of the geomagnetic field in air movement, and the motion drift that is consistent with the motion frequency of the magnetic sensor is introduced into the magnetic sensor.
Domestic and foreign scholars have carried out a series of researches on the low-frequency motion noise of semi-airborne system. The representative works include: Li Suyi of Jilin University, Li Yuan of Chengdu University of Technology, etc., and studied the methods of removing motion drift by using wavelet transform and empirical mode decomposition respectively, and obtained good attenuation curves and processing results in time domain. Wu Xin, from Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, used artificial intelligence algorithm to deal with the low-frequency motion noise of semi-airborne time-domain system, and achieved good processing results in simulation data.
The above methods are mainly aimed at the situation that the exploration frequency of time-domain system or frequency-domain system is higher than the low-frequency motion noise frequency, and are of no help to the situation that the exploration frequency is the same as the motion noise frequency.
In summary, the existing methods generally deal with the noise of time-domain systems or specific sources, but may not simultaneously remove the motion drift, making it difficult to achieve one-time cancellation of low-frequency motion noise in semi-airborne electromagnetic exploration systems.
To sum up, the existing semi-airborne electromagnetic exploration method has following problems.
1. The existing motion noise removal methods generally deal with the noise of time-domain systems or specific sources, and are powerless to the motion noise with the same frequency or similar frequency (the exploration frequency is the same as the motion drift) in semi-airborne electromagnetic systems.
2. It is difficult to remove or suppress the low-frequency motion drift of the magnetic sensor in the frequency-domain systems.
The existence of the above problems limits the application of semi-airborne electromagnetic exploration method in mineral resources exploration, especially in the exploration target field of low-resistivity ore beds with large buried depth and low resistivity.
In order to solve the above problems, an objective of the disclosure is to provide a method, a device and an application for mobile rapid exploration of mineral resources to effectively eliminate low-frequency motion noise in a semi-airborne electromagnetic exploration process, improve the exploration depth and exploration accuracy, and meet requirements for rapid exploration of low-resistivity minerals.
In order to achieve the above objective, the disclosure adopts a following technical scheme.
A method for mobile rapid exploration of mineral resources includes following steps:
Optionally, the primary estimation of the low-frequency motion noise of the main magnetic sensor in the step 2 is implemented according to a following method:
where SRR is a self-power spectrum output by the slave magnetic sensor, and SY1Y2 is a cross-power spectrum output by the slave magnetic sensor and the main magnetic sensor.
Optionally, the secondary estimation of the low-frequency motion noise of the main magnetic sensor in the step 3 is implemented according to a following method:
where SSS is a self-power spectrum of the vertical magnetic field signals collected by the ground vertical magnetic field sensor, and SY3Y4 is a cross-power spectrum of the primary estimation of the low-frequency motion noise and the vertical magnetic field signals collected by the ground vertical magnetic field sensor.
In an embodiment, in the step 1, frequencies of collected vertical magnetic field signals include 1 hertz (Hz)-100 kilohertz (kHz).
In an embodiment, the method for mobile rapid exploration of mineral resources is applied to exploration of low-resistivity ore beds, and a buried depth of the low-resistivity ore beds ranges from 0 meter (m) to 500 m and from 500 m to 800 m. For ore beds with a buried depth of 0 m-500 m, both the method according to the disclosure and an existing semi-airborne electromagnetic exploration method may be adopted. For ore beds with a buried depth of 500 m-800 m, the method according to the disclosure should be adopted.
A device for mobile rapid exploration of mineral resources includes,
Optionally, both the main magnetic sensor and the slave magnetic sensor are coils, the main magnetic sensor is recorded as a measuring coil and the slave magnetic sensor is recorded as a reference coil, and the reference coil is bridged on the measuring coil, and an outer diameter of the reference coil is much smaller than an outer diameter of the measuring coil.
Optionally, the reference coil is bridged on the measuring coil through reference coil supports and reference coil fixing rings, where the reference coil supports are used for maintaining an outline of the reference coil and the reference coil fixing rings are used for fixing bridging points between the reference coil and the measuring coil.
Optionally, the measuring coil and the reference coil are both square or circular.
Optionally, the measuring coil and the reference coil are simultaneously connected to an unmanned aerial vehicle or a helicopter; and a layout position of the ground reference station meets layout requirements of a receiver position in a controlled source magnetotelluric observation method.
Compared with the prior art, the disclosure following characteristics.
Firstly, a low-frequency motion noise processing method according to the disclosure is effective for both semi-airborne time-domain electromagnetic method and frequency-domain electromagnetic method.
Secondly, the correlation prediction for measuring the low-frequency motion noise of the main magnetic sensor may be realized by other correlation prediction methods besides a correlation reference method.
Thirdly, the devices and the method according to the disclosure suppress an influence of the low-frequency motion noise. On the one hand, the exploration depth of mineral resources exploration may be improved, so as to realize the exploration of mineral resources with large buried depth. On the other hand, it is helpful to improve the exploration accuracy of the system, so as to realize the exploration of mineral resources with low resistivity. For example, a low-resistivity mineral distribution layer with a depth of 600 meters and a thickness of 10 meters may not be detected if the influence of the low-frequency motion noise is not eliminated, but the low-resistivity mineral distribution layer may be clearly reflected after the influence is eliminated by the disclosure.
The disclosure will be further described with reference to attached drawings and specific embodiments, but it should not be understood that the scope of the subject matter of the disclosure is limited to the following embodiments, and all kinds of modifications, substitutions and changes made according to the common technical knowledge and common means in the field are included in the scope of the disclosure without departing from the above technical ideas of the disclosure.
As shown in
The measuring coil 2 and the reference coil 3 are both circular coils, and are connected by rigid bridging to form a measuring coil, where the reference coil 3 is fixed at two bridging points on a circumference of the measuring coil 2 by the reference coil fixing rings 5, and an inner circumference of the reference coil 3 is supported from an inside to an outside by the two radially arranged reference coil supports 4 to keep an outline of the reference coil 3. The reference coil 3 and the measuring coil 2 have a same bandwidth, and exploration resolution of the reference coil 3 may only distinguish low-frequency motion noise, but may not distinguish real vertical magnetic field signals. Exploration resolution of the measuring coil 2 may simultaneously distinguish real vertical magnetic field signals and low-frequency motion noise, and an outer diameter of the reference coil 3 is much smaller than an outer diameter of the measuring coil 2. The measuring coil is connected to the unmanned aerial vehicle 7 through the airborne suspension platform 6.
The position setting of the ground reference station 8 should meet requirements of a receiver position in a conventional controlled source magnetotelluric observation scheme, that is, the ground reference station 8 should be arranged within an angle range of 600 left and right of a vertical line in the ground emission source 1, and a vertical distance from the ground emission source 1 is more than 5 times a skin depth. For example, for a exploration task with a lowest frequency of 10 Hz, assuming that an average earth resistivity is 100 ohm meters, a vertical distance between the ground reference station 8 and the ground emission source 1 should be more than 7.9 kilometers. In addition, it should be ensured that the ground reference station 8 has strong signal and small interference, and a signal-to-noise ratio is higher than 20 decibel (dB), so that three-component magnetic field signals with high signal-to-noise ratios may be measured.
When the semi-airborne electromagnetic exploration system is used to quickly explore low-resistivity mineral resources, as shown in
Specific algorithms for the primary estimation and the secondary estimation of the low-frequency motion noise of the measuring coil 2 are as follows:
Therefore, a low-frequency motion noise correlation mapping function H(ω) may be estimated adaptively according to the cross-power spectrum of the reference coil 3 and the measuring coil 2 and the self-power spectrum output by the reference coil 3:
It may be known that a signal after the measuring coil 2 cancels the low-frequency motion noise is:
bzm(n)=F−1[Y2(ω)−Br(ω)·H(ω)] (7)
Considering that when a signal intensity is large, the signal may be picked up by the reference coil 3, Bn may contain a leakage of the useful signal. Therefore, the primary estimation of the low-frequency motion noise is subjected to ground station reference processing to obtain a secondary estimation result of the low-frequency motion noise, and a specific processing process is as follows: by applying a correlation reference method between the reference coil 3 and the measuring coil 2, a primary estimation result of the low-frequency motion noise and data obtained by the ground vertical magnetic field sensor 9 in the ground reference station 8 are subjected to correlation reference processing to recover signals lost in noise estimation. A signal obtained by the ground vertical magnetic field sensor 9 in the ground reference station 8 is defined as bs, and the primary estimation of the low-frequency motion noise includes two parts: the secondary estimation bns of the low-frequency motion noise and the leakage of the useful signal, and the leaked signal is related to the signal obtained by the ground vertical magnetic field sensor 9 in the ground reference station 8, and a mapping function is h2(n), that is, a following relationship is satisfied:
y3(n)=bs(n) (9)
y4(n)=bn=bns+h2(n)*bs(n) (10).
Correlation mapping steps are repeated for y3 and y4, and a formula (3) to a formula (6) are referred to obtain:
where SY3Y4 is a cross-power spectrum of the primary estimation of the low-frequency motion noise and the vertical magnetic field response of the ground reference, and SSS is a self-power spectrum of the vertical magnetic field signal (data) obtained by the ground vertical magnetic field sensor 9 in the ground reference station 8.
Therefore, the useful signal in the primary estimation of the low-frequency motion noise is:
bsr=F−1[Bs(ω)·H2(ω)] (12), and
Finally, a vertical magnetic field response signal of the measuring coil 2 after the secondary estimation to cancel the low-frequency motion noise is obtained:
bzs=y2−bns=bzm+bsr (14).
In order to verify the effectiveness of the disclosure, modeling processing is carried out in a simulation way. As shown in
There are three curves in
There are three curves in
Through the comparison in
It may be seen from
To sum up, the system and the method provided by the disclosure may realize rapid exploration of mineral resources, and further improve the exploration accuracy of the system compared with traditional schemes.
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