Edge location is an important information of the source, and can be obtained by the potential field data. Most edge detection methods of potential field data are the functions of horizontal and vertical derivatives. The authors provide a new strategy to establish edge detection filters that can improve the resolution to identify small bodies, which use the ratio functions of different-order derivatives to recognize the edges of the sources. The new filter is named as advanced derivative ratio (ADR) filter and balanced outputs can be produced for different forms of ADR filters. The ADR filters are tested on synthetic data and real potential field data. The advantage of the ADR filters is that they can detect the edges of the causative sources more precisely and clearly, and the model testing results show that the resolution of ADR filters is higher than other existing filters. The ADR filters were applied to real data, with more subtle details obtained.
Key words
edge detection /
potential field data /
advanced derivative ratio /
different-order /
resolution
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Funding
Supported by Projects of National Key R & D Program of China(Nos.2017YFC0602203,2017YFC0601606), National Science and Technology Major Project (No.2016ZX05027-002-03), National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos.41604098,41404089)and State Key Program of National Natural Science of China (No.41430322).
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