Research Article

A Fast Interpretation Method for Inverse Modeling of Residual Gravity Anomalies Caused by Simple Geometry

Table 4

Numerical results of the present method applied to the horizontal cylinder synthetic example ( 𝑞 = 1 , 𝑧 = 5  km, and 𝐴 = 7 5 0  mGal * km; profile length = 40 km; sampling interval = 1 km) without and with 5% random noise.

Using synthetic dataUsing data with 5% random errors
𝑀 (km)Computed depth (km)Computed shape factorComputed amplitude factor (mGal)Computed depth (km)Computed shape factorComputed amplitude factor (mGal)

3.007.291.542252.785.380.76393.01
4.005.871.011812.756.911.222686.23
5.005.300.82590.165.930.91706.47
6.004.940.72435.485.730.85561.92
7.004.670.64359.255.460.78423.99
8.004.430.58211.875.020.67280.06
9.004.200.52179.184.500.54187.71
10.004.000.47156.334.180.47152.74

Average (km)5.090.79749.725.390.78674.02