Checklists
Maintaining control over equipment and field procedures during a geophysical survey can easily be overlooked. The checklists listed are an easy means to implement quality control checks into any scale geophysical survey.
Please refer back to this web page regularly as Geomatrix Earth Science intend to add checklists for other instrumentation.
DGM QC Guidance Manual
The checklists were originally developed by NAEVA Geophysical Inc as part of the Digital Geophysical Mapping (DGM) QC Guidance Manual for the US Army Corps of Engineers to aid with quality control when conducting geophysical surveys for identifying Unexploded Ordinance (UXO). The full DGM QC Guidance Manual and Military Munitions Response Actions are available to download below.
DGM QC Guidance Manual (2003) ( PDF 2MB )
Military Munitions Response Actions (2007) ( PDF 2MB )
In accordance with the mantra of the DGM QC Guidance Manual Geomatrix Earth Science has contributed to their legacy by modifying and adapting the checklists in order to broaden their application and make them more applicable to all geophysical surveys.
Geomatrix Earth Science would like to thank NAEVA Geophysics Inc for permitting us to modify and host the DGM QC Guidance Checklists.
- Checklist for Daily Instrument Checks (PDF 133KB)
- Checklist for Data Processing (PDF 190KB)
- Checklist for Data Storage and Transfer (PDF 249KB)
- Checklist for EM31 or EM38 Operating Procedures (PDF 235KB)
- Checklist for EM61 Operating Procedures (PDF 228KB)
- Checklist for Field Editing (PDF 244KB)
- Checklist for GPR Operating Procedures (PDF 234KB)
- Checklist for GPS Operating Procedures (PDF 231KB)
- Checklist for Initial Instrument Tests (PDF 228KB)
- Checklist for Instrument Storage (PDF 138KB)
- Checklist for Magnetics Operating Procedures (PDF 230KB)
- Checklist for Out of Box Equipment Tests (PDF 228KB)
- Checklist for Prove-Out Location and Design (PDF 228KB)
- Checklist for Resistivity Operating Procedures (PDF 231KB)
- Checklist for Seeding Prove-Out Grid (PDF 228KB)