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Airborne Gravity 2010
these developments to fixed wing survey data has demonstrated the improvements made to data
quality since 2004. The impact has been to produce higher quality data both consistently and
efficiently to support the end user’s decision making process.
Acknowledgements
De Beers and Zeppelin NT are acknowledged for their contribution to the airship project and their
permission to use portions of the data from this project in this paper. Statoil ASA, Gaz de France
Norge and Celtic Minerals are also acknowledged for permission to publish their data examples.
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