GeoVerse Lab
← Intelligent Geophysical Exploration Division

Gravity & Magnetic Methods Center

Applies potential field methods for regional-scale geological mapping, basement structure, and mineral exploration, conducting gravity and magnetic surveys with advanced inversion techniques for basin geometry, salt dome detection, and mineral deposits.

Seismic Exploration & Imaging CenterGravity & Magnetic Methods CenterElectromagnetic Methods CenterEarthquake Seismology CenterIntegrated Geophysics & Interpretation CenterInversion & Modeling CenterWell Logging & Petrophysics Center
Research Fields 12
Marine Gravity Surveying
🚢 Marine Gravity Surveying
Marine gravity surveying measures Earth's gravitational field from ships or submerged plat…
Gravity Gradiometry (Torsion Balance & FTG)
⚖️ Gravity Gradiometry (Torsion Balance & FTG)
Gravity gradiometry measures not the gravitational field itself but its spatial rate of ch…
Gravimeter Data Reduction & Terrain Correction
🧮 Gravimeter Data Reduction & Terrain Correction
Gravimeter data reduction converts a raw field gravity reading, which mixes the geological…
Shipboard & Marine Gravity Measurement Systems
🛰️ Shipboard & Marine Gravity Measurement Systems
Shipboard and marine gravity measurement systems engineer the instrumentation that allows …
Satellite Geodesy & Geoid Determination
🛰️ Satellite Geodesy & Geoid Determination
Satellite geodesy determines Earth's global gravity field and the shape of the geoid, the …
Aeromagnetic Survey & Magnetometer Instrumentation
🚁 Aeromagnetic Survey & Magnetometer Instrumentation
Aeromagnetic survey measures small spatial variations in Earth's total magnetic field inte…
Marine & Ground Magnetics
🧲 Marine & Ground Magnetics
Marine and ground magnetics acquires and interprets total-field magnetic measurements from…
Paleomagnetism & Rock Magnetism
🧭 Paleomagnetism & Rock Magnetism
Paleomagnetism measures the remanent magnetization locked into rocks at the time of their …
Magnetic Anomaly Processing & Depth Estimation
📐 Magnetic Anomaly Processing & Depth Estimation
Magnetic anomaly processing transforms raw total-field magnetic survey data, after removin…
3D Gravity & Magnetic Forward Modeling and Inversion
🧊 3D Gravity & Magnetic Forward Modeling and Inversion
Three-dimensional gravity and magnetic forward modeling and inversion builds explicit dens…
Isostasy & Regional Crustal Structure
⛰️ Isostasy & Regional Crustal Structure
Isostasy interprets gravity anomalies in light of the principle that Earth's rigid outer l…
Continental Gravity Base Networks & Crustal Density Mapping
🗺️ Continental Gravity Base Networks & Crustal Density Mapping
Continental gravity base networks are hierarchically organized systems of precisely measur…