Research Article

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

Table 3

Numerical results of the present method applied to the sphere synthetic example ( 𝑞 = 1 . 5 , 𝑧 = 5  km, and 𝐴 = 5 0 0  mGal * km2; profile length = 20 km; sampling interval = 1 km) without and with 10% random noise.

Using synthetic dataUsing data with 10% random errors
𝑀 (km)Computed depth (km)Computed shape factorComputed amplitude factor (mGal)Computed depth (km)Computed shape factorComputed amplitude factor (mGal)

2.005.001.50500.002.791.39334.34
3.005.001.50500.004.481.17146.71
4.005.001.50500.004.991.44407.92
5.005.001.50500.003.001.20271.76
6.005.001.50500.005.071.49493.73
7.005.001.50500.005.071.49496.48
8.005.001.50500.005.301.62844.65
9.005.001.50500.005.251.59750.98
10.005.001.50500.005.161.54602.08

Average (km)5.001.50500.004.561.44483.18

Percent of error0.000.000.008.804.663.36