Put your feet first when conducting ground mag surveys
Ground mag surveys involve walking tens of kilometers day after day. In my mid twenties I could average close to 30 l-km per day for days at a time in favorable terrain...
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Don't do a ground magnetic survey without GPS navigation built into the magnetometer.
Most magnetometers can tell you where they have been, but only a few can tell you where to go.
For efficiency, ground magnetic surveys are usually conducted along parallel survey lines – or grids. In the bad old days prior to GPS, these grids would...
How to walk straighter and further with less effort when conducting ground geophysical surveys.
Some walk the line straighter than others. Walking straighter lines when conducting ground geophysical surveys increases the production l-km in a day. Alternatively, if there is a fixed amount of work to do in the day, then straighter lines means less...