COMPUTER SIMULATION OF AN AIR-BORNE GAMMA-RAY SPECTROMETER.

A computer model is presented that simulates the data from a flight of an air-borne gamma-ray spectrometer over a surface containing gamma-ray sources of arbitrary horizontal dimension and coordinates. The mathematical formalism is given, together with a discussion of the assumptions or approximations that are made. Representative computational results are shown for simulated flights over circular sources and across linear sources.