Data processing requirements for an 1 Eö/√Hz AGG system

Abstract

A step-change evolution of airborne gravity gradiometry (AGG) instruments will enable the rapid acquisition of high quality and high resolution geophysical datasets. On top of the advances in the instrument hardware, the nature of the uncertainties that each stage of data processing introduces must be understood so that there is a high level of confidence in the deliverable result. This paper introduces a dataset that aims to facilitate the comparison of terrain correction and 3D inversion packages, using a combination of real and synthetic data from the Kauring airborne gravity test site.