MER Today Spring 2017 MER Newsletter - May2017 | Page 4
A suite of systems, each customizable reduce time in the field and increase data
for dipole moment, speed, and acquisition speed is now met with SkyTEM’s
altitude to suit specific targets and fast systems, launched in 2015. This heralded
terrain. the introduction of ultra‐light and resilient
Delivery of B‐field, observed IP effect
carbon fibre carrier frames that keep system
geometry rigid and stable while in fast flight.
and streamed data.
One of the first groups to take advantage of
SkyTEM FAST was Geoscience BC for their
Peace Project – a subsurface mapping project
designed to collect new information about
geology and lithology within an 8,300 square
kilometre area in northeast British
Columbia. The Peace region of the province
has been a focus of petroleum exploration
and development since 1952 and
participating partner companies included the
BC Oil and Gas Commission, ConocoPhillips
and Progress Energy as well as several Treaty
8 First Nations.
The main priority of the project was to map
Decrease helicopter hours,
increase speed of acquisition
Typically fixed wing electromagnetic
geophysical surveys cost less per line
kilometre when compared to helicopter‐
borne surveys due to the higher rate of data
acquisition. A high percentage of the total
cost of helicopter‐borne surveys is derived
from helicopter hours. The challenge to
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the area, comprising some 21,000 line
kilometres, in fine detail and to a depth of at
least 300 meters. In addition, a major project
planning constraint was that the airborne
data acquisition had to be completed before
the hunting and trapping season began. This
required the project to be completed within
seven (7) weeks from start up. In order to
meet this tight deadline, SkyTEM312 FAST , able
to operate at up to 150 kph, was selected for
the data acquisition. Over 1,000 line