Aeromagnetic pre-processing system based on graphic user interface and pre-processing method using the thereof

• US 9,817,844 B2
• Filed: 02/25/2015
• Issued: 11/14/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 04/10/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Korea Mine Rehabilitation and Mineral Resources Corporation
• Original Assignee: Korea Resources Corp. (South Korea) (Government of South Korea)
• Inventors: Ko, Gwang Beom
• Primary Examiner(s): Shafi, Muhammad
• Application Number:
  US14/904,105
• Publication Number:
  US 20160171010A1
• Time in Patent Office: 993 Days
• Field of Search: 701410
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 23/00 Combined instruments indicating more than one navigational value, e.g. for aircraft; Combined measuring devices for measuring two or more variables of movement, e.g. distance, speed or acceleration
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/00 Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/22 Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/287 Visualization; Browsing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/29 Geographical information databases
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/048 Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/206 Drawing of charts or graphs
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 5/0034 Assembly of a flight plan

Abstract

An aeromagnetic pre-processing system based on a graphic user interface (GUI) includes an input unit for inputting measured aeromagnetic data, GPS data, and reference magnetic data, a data storage unit for storing individual data, collection data, and edition data on division area data groups obtained after an investigation area is divided, a GUI providing unit for providing a GUI for data input/output, an operation unit for performing an operation to perform pre-processing for each of the division area data groups and collection and leveling of the division area data groups, and a controller for controlling the input unit, the data storage unit, the GUI providing unit, and the operation unit.

Claims

1. An aeromagnetic pre-processing system based on a graphic user interface (GUI), comprising:

one or more units and databases being configured and executed by a processor using algorithm which associated with least one non-transitory storage device, the algorithm which when executed, causes the processor to perform the one or more units, the one or more units comprising;

an input unit for receiving at least one of measured aeromagnetic data, GPS data, and reference magnetic data;

a data storage unit for storing individual data, collection data, and edition data with respect to division area data groups, the division area data groups being obtained subsequent to an investigation area being divided, the investigation area being represented as a solid-line polygon;

a division data group database (DB) associated with the processor for individually storing each the division area data groups;

an integrated DB associated with the processor for constituting the collected division data groups as an integrated DB by collecting and storing each of the division area data groups; and

an address specification integrated DB associated with the processor for removing survey data beyond the investigation area and unnecessary data corresponding to an overlapping or irregular flight within the investigation area, for providing an address to every survey, and then for storing the surveys,

a GUI providing unit for providing a GUI for data input/output;

an operation unit for pre-processing for each of the division area data groups and collecting editing and leveling data of the division area data groups; and

a display unit for visualizing the division data groups in the form of flight paths by using data groups of each of the division data group database (DB), integrated DB, and address specification integrated DB, the division data groups being displayed by reducing consumption of time and effort due to user'"'"'s inevitable manual thereby providing the user with an efficient pre-processing operation of aeromagnetic data.

2. The aeromagnetic pre-processing system of claim 1, wherein the operation unit comprises:

a pre-processing operation unit for performing a pre-processing operation for each of the division area data groups with respect to the aeromagnetic data, GPS data, and reference magnetic data, which are read through the input unit;

an integrated DB operation unit for performing an operation to generate an integrated DB by collecting the division area data groups; and

a leveling operation unit for performing an operation to implement conventional leveling and micro leveling.

3. A computer-implemented pre-processing method using an aeromagnetic pre-processing system based on a GUI, the pre-processing method comprising:

reading measured aeromagnetic data, GPS data, and reference magnetic data for each division data groups;

synchronizing the aeromagnetic data, GPS data, and reference magnetic data, the synchronized data having the same recording time;

transforming GPS information represented with latitude and longitude to Transverse Mercator (TM) or Universe Transverse Mercator (UTM);

performing correction of a delay corresponding to transceiver spacing and a heading effect corresponding to different flight directions;

constituting an integrated DB by collecting all division data groups stored in a division data group DB of a data storage unit;

removing unnecessary data beyond an investigation area;

selectively removing unnecessary data within the investigation area;

performing specification and edition of an address for each survey of the integrated DB;

performing conventional leveling; and

performing micro levelling, wherein removing the unnecessary data beyond an investigation area is performed by

configuring the investigation area as a combination of polygonal coordinates in a looped curve shape, and the combination of the polygonal coordinates is overlapped with the aeromagnetic data visualized as the flight paths,

separating all aeromagnetic data into internal and external data, and

selectively removing unnecessary external area data, and wherein

all aeromagnetic data stored in the integrated DB are visualized as flight paths, and the visualized flight paths are provided to a user.

4. The pre-processing method of claim 3, wherein, in order to remove an undesired portion due to an overlapping or irregular flight path within the investigation, area all surveys are separated into segmented survey groups by introducing segment points having a finite number, and a corresponding segment survey to be removed is selectively removed by using a mouse.

5. The pre-processing method of claim 3, wherein, one survey in the south/north or east/west direction is arbitrarily specified, and separated into surveys by allowing the user to determine whether the one survey is a survey line or tie line, and an address is specified with respect to each of the separated surveys.

6. The pre-processing method of claim 3, wherein a feedback process for allowing the user to derive an optimum result through repetitive trials and errors.