A Turbo Pascal 7.0 program to fit a polynomial of any order to potential field anomalies based on the analytic least squares method

Abstract

An anomaly separation program for gravity (or magnetic) data in prospecting domain is presented. It can be applied to the gravity or magnetic anomaly separation of degree up to three and allows the management of up to 1200 data. Its implementation requires a Turbo Pascal surrounding through a TP7 list on the main root of the computer. The results obtained after execution of the program can be displayed, printed or stocked in a data file. In order to test the program, we have compared our results with those obtained from a Fortran program written by Radhakrisha and Krishnamacharyulu (1990) using the least squares method. The advantage of using our program is that a great number of data can be handled even for a local study, the execution is rapid and the accuracy is greatly improved upon. African Journal of Science and Technology Vol.4(2) 2003: 1-4