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Prospects of Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Geomagnetic Surveys

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An overview of applications of geomagnetic data for practical purposes is presented. Many of them involve models of the Earth’s main magnetic field and spatial distribution of anomalous magnetization of the upper lithosphere as input parameters. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can significantly improve the efficiency of detecting magnetic anomalies.

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This study was carried out as part of a state assignment of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation for the Institute of Physics of the Earth, Russian Academy of Sciences (IMA, MIA, KIH), and the Geophysical Center, Russian Academy of Sciences (AAS, RVS, ENS).

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    I. M. Aleshin, A. A. Soloviev, M. I. Aleshin & E. N. Solovieva

  2. Geophysical Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 119296, Moscow, Russia

    I. M. Aleshin, A. A. Soloviev, R. V. Sidorov, E. N. Solovieva & K. I. Kholodkov

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Aleshin, I.M., Soloviev, A.A., Aleshin, M.I. et al. Prospects of Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Geomagnetic Surveys. Seism. Instr. 56, 522–530 (2020). https://doi.org/10.3103/S0747923920050059

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