Gap Geophysics Australia has its own focused research and development program and collaborates with scientists and customers around the world.
Gap will accept research and development contracts in any areas where it has strong and innovative capabilities.
State Of The Art
Gap is a leader in the development of equipment, data processing software and survey methodologies for minerals exploration, explosive ordnance detection and sub-surface mapping.
These state-of-the-art capabilities are located near to, and are in constant collaboration with, two major Australian universities.
Gap performs joint development work with a number of its customers who have contributed expertise and technologies, as well as funds.
Gap's founders have won international awards for excellence in geophysics for minerals exploration and UXO detection. They head up a team of scientists and technicians which keeps Gap and its customers at the forefront of sub-surface detection technologies.
Equipment
Gap's equipment is superior in many ways. R&D is continuing in magnetic and electromagnetic equipment , with a number of developments planned for the TM-5EMU and the ongoing development of the TM-6.
Gap's use of its own equipment to solve difficult commercial problems, as well as finding better solutions for normal commercial contracts, results in products that are ideally suited to customer needs.
The close feedback between our customers, our operators, project managers and our scientists leads to the faster introduction of important and ergonomic features, which result in better equipment producing a better commercial outcome.
Data Processing
Gap has extensive experience in software development and processing the massive volumes of data involved in geophysics. Gap develops its own software intimately interfaced to industry-standard software to produce the best results for customers.
Gap responds to the needs of individual projects and can quickly scope, specify, develop and test new software and techniques - without waiting for a new revision of an industry-standard package.
Methodologies
Gap has a proven track record in the development of innovative methodologies, including:
- The development of digital magnetometry and the production of the world’s first hand-held digital Caesium-vapour magnetometer with automatic data positioning capabilities;
- The invention and patenting of the Sub-Audio Magnetics (SAM) methodology;
- The development of the innovative data processing technologies required to effectively extract the SAM information from the magnetic data;
- The development and patenting of a novel data inversion technique which is still to be introduced commercially;
- Collaborative confidential development of advances to the MineLab metal detector to produce a digital electromagnetic detector which benefits from the MineLab patents;
- Methods for 'blind' seeding of UXO as a quality control measure;and
- Methods for statistical assessment of UXO contamination.