Two and three-dimensional magnetotelluric inversion. Technical report, December 1, 1991--May 31, 1994

Our overall goal is to develop efficient techniques for high resolution imaging of the electrical structure of the Earth`s subsurface. We have focussed on natural source techniques. Such as magnetotellurics (MT). The main accomplishment under our past DOE funding has been to implement a new algorithm to invert MT data for multi-dimensional structure which is orders of magnitude faster and more memory efficient than competing algorithms. In our most recent work, we have substantially extended the capability of our two-dimensional code: completed basic implementation of a three-dimensional code and investigated holographic techniques able to rapidly extract images without solving for material properties. The principal new goal of our proposed research is to extend our methods to the controlled source electromagnetic (CSEM) techniques used in many industrial applications.