10. Comprehensive Workflows

This section of the GIFtools cookbook is meant to provide practical tutorials for inverting field-collected data. Generally, the user will start with topography and geophysical data in a standard format. The ultimate goal is to invert the field collected data and recover a model that can be used for interpretation. Successful inversion of geophysical data using the UBC-GIF framework requires:

• Understanding geophysical anomalies produced by basic structures

• Importing geophysical data and topography into GIFtools

• Transforming data from other conventions to the UBC-GIF convention

• Basic interpretation of the data

• Assigning appropriate uncertainties

• Designing an appropriate mesh

• Inverting the data with reasonable parameters

• Assessment and interpretation of inversion results

List of Comprehensive Workflows:

• 10.1. Magnetics: From surface TMI data to sparse-norm inversion
• 10.2. DCIP: From UBC-GIF/XYZ to DC and IP inversion
• 10.3. MT: From EDI data to inversion
• 10.4. ZTEM: From XYZ data to inversion
• 10.5. MobileMT: From XYZ data to inversion
• 10.6. Joint MT-ZTEM inversion
• 10.7. Surface UTEM: From AMIRA TEM data file to inversion (ongoing research)
• 10.8. Borehole UTEM: From AMIRA TEM data file to inversion (ongoing research)