Abstract
Magnetotelluric exploration is one of geophysical methods for
investigating the Earth’s deep interior. This method measures natural
geoelectric and geomagnetic field values. Impedance is expressed by the
relation between the measured electric fields and magnetic fields, and
it is used to estimate the electromagnetic properties of the Earth’s
deep interior. In the early stage, the geophysical responses at receiver
was simply considered as responses from one-dimensional structure and
the impedance was used in the form of scalar. As we consider
three-dimensional structure nowadays, the impedance is mainly used in
the form of matrix. Each component of the matrix is determined by
various factors such as underground structure and surrounding
environment. It is very important to know how these components reflect
those factors since the components of the impedance are the basic
information to estimate the interior of the earth. In this study, we
focus on the topographic effects and correction with three-dimensional
earth model for Gyeongju sites. As the Gyeongju area is surrounded by
several mountains and faults, it has highly complicate topographies.
However, the conventional topographic correction is not perfect for
complex area because it is calculated in homogeneous earth model. In
this study, we use the finite element methods using hexahedral and
tetrahedral elements to examine the topographic correction method in
complex topographies and three-dimensional anomalies. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This work was supported by the Nuclear Safety Research Program through
the Korea Foundation Of Nuclear Safety(KoFONS), granted financial
resource from the Nuclear Safety and Security Commission(NSSC), Republic
of Korea (No.1705010) and Korea Institute of Energy Technology
Evaluation and Planning(KETEP) and the Ministry of Trade, Industry &
Energy(MOTIE) of the Republic of Korea (No. 20168510030830).