Musgrave Province Airborne Electromagnetic Conductivity Grids

Airborne electromagnetic surveys undertaken in the Musgraves Province in South Australia Queensland, Australia. The surveys were flown between the 18th August 2016 and 14th October 2016. Project As part of the Goyder Institutes Facilitating Long-Term Outback Water Solutions Stage 3 (G-FLOWS 3) two airborne electromagnetic (AEM) surveys were flown to assist in a regional groundwater resources assessment in an otherwise data poor area. AEM systems For the AEM data acquisition, two different AEM surveys were planned with a relatively wide line spacing of 2km, wide enough to cover a large region, whilst being close enough to provide useful information about the variability of cover, including the location and geometry of the major palaeovalley systems known to be present in the area. Both surveys were flown with a line spacing of 2km in a north-south direction. The western survey was flown with the TEMPEST high moment (HM) system, and the eastern part with the SkyTEM312FAST system. Both systems are time domain AEM systems, one being of a fixed wing configuration (TEMPEST), the other being helicopter borne (SkyTEM).