Airborne electromagnetic profiling in the Gulf of Mexico

Abstract

First, I will give an overview of the research on Airborne Electromagnetic Profiling (AEM) by the University of New Orleans (UNO) group that included George Ioup. The standard techniques of error correction, calibration, modeling, inverse methods, interpolation, and smoothing were used to convert raw profiler data into meaningful data and useful products. As a part of a NASA EPSCoR project, the group applied layer models to AEM data to measure shallow water bathymetry and water column stratification in the Gulf of Mexico and coastal near surface geomorphology in the Barataria basin of Louisiana. In the second part of the talk, I will sketch the history of the UNO Engineering and Applied Science doctoral program and George Ioup's large role in it.