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Gravity & Magnetics (GEO 134)

COURSE SCHEDULE

Code Date Location price (€)*
GEO 134 10 - 13 Aug 2026 Online 2640
GEO 134 9 - 12 Nov 2026 Online 2640
GEO 134 14 - 17 Sep 2026 Oslo 3520
GEO 134 12 - 15 Oct 2026 Doha 3520

COURSE OVERVIEW

The course is partly based on an EAGE publication (Advances in Gravity and Magnetic Processing and Interpretation by J. Derek Fairhead, ISBN 978-94-6282-175-0). In the first part, various aspects of gravity will be discussed, such as the Earth gravity field, determining anomalies in the global field, establishing the depth of density anomalies, be it spherical or anticlinal and the resolution, which is limited because gravity is a “potential field”. Most promising is the development of gravity gradiometer, whereby gradients in the gravity field can be directly measured with great accuracy. These measurements are less sensitive to airplane and ship movement. In the second part, the Earth’s magnetic field, also a “potential field” will be studied. Being due to the internal dipole source, the inherently more difficult interpretation is simplified by applying a transformation to a monopole field (Reduction to the Pole or Equator). As different causative sources can produce the same surface measurements, non-uniqueness is always present. However, promising developments to mitigate these issues will be shown. Finally, we will discuss and apply the “latest and greatest” that is Machine Learning, a part of Artificial Intelligence, which is step-changing the geoscience world. We will use a standard package called Weka and familiarise ourselves with the “ultimate” open-source software TensorFlow. Exercises will be done using Weka and Google Colab.

COURSE OUTLINE

5 days
Day 1:

o Geophysical Methods

o Determining depths of a sphere

o Determining depths of an anticline

o Geoid

o Reference Ellipsoid

o Gravity Reductions

Day 2:

o Gravity Inversion

o Gravity Resolution

o Gravity Gradiometer Data

o Grav-Mag modelling

Day 3:

o Magnetics

o Magnetic Inclination & Declination

o Reduction to the Pole / Equator

o Magnetic signature through time

o Magnetic Inversion

o Your Local Magnetic field

Day 4:

o ML Supervised, Unsupervised

o ML Semi-supervised Learning

o ML Field data

o Grav-Mag inversion

INSTRUCTOR

Instructor Profile

Instructor has a PhD from Utrecht University on “Full wave theory and the structure of the lower mantle” and joined Shell Research to develop methods to predict lithology and pore-fluid based on seismic, petrophysical and geological data. Subsequently worked for Shell in London to interpret seismic data from the Central North Sea Graben.

As part of a Quantitative Interpretation assignment, he was actively involved in managing, processing and interpreting Well Seismic Profiling data, while heading a team for the development of 3D interpretation methods using multi-attribute statistical and pattern recognition analysis. Subsequently he was responsible for Geophysics in the Shell Learning Centre and at the same time part-time professor in Applied Geophysics at the University of Utrecht. From 2001 till 2005 he worked on the development of Potential Field Methods (Gravity, Magnetics) for detecting oil and gas. From 2008 til 2013 he was visiting professor at the German Technical University in Muscat. Finally, he became a champion on the use of EM methods and involved in designing acquisition, processing and interpretation for Marine Controlled Source EM (CSEM) methods.

FAQ

DESIGNED FOR

Geoscientists who either do prospect reconnaissance in new areas/basins or look at cases where the seismic has difficulties and additional supplementary information is needed, for example below salt or volcanic layers.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

The course's primary learning objectives are: 

o What is gravity and how to model the gravity responses of bodies

o The use of gravity gradiometer data for higher resolution

o The advantages of using gravity together with gradiometer data

o The magnetic field of the Earth

o Combining gravity and magnetic data for interpretation.

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