Systems and methods for subsurface electromagnetic mapping

Abstract

Systems and methods which provide electromagnetic subsurface mapping to derive information with respect to subsurface features whose sizes are near to or below the resolution of electromagnetic data characterizing the subsurface are shown. Embodiments operate to identify a region of interest () in a resistivity image generated () using electromagnetic data (). One or more scenarios may be identified for the areas of interest, wherein the various scenarios comprise representations of features whose sizes are near to or below the resolution of the electromagnetic data (). According to embodiments, the scenarios are evaluated (), such as using forward or inverse modeling, to determine each scenarios' fit to the available data and further to determine their geologic reasonableness (). Resulting scenarios may be utilized in a number of ways, such as to be substituted in a resistivity image for a corresponding region of anomalous resistivity for enhancing the resistivity image ().