Passive Imaging
is a high-tech imaging company using patented, passive sensing techniques to graphically portray subsurface objects and matter such as geologic structure, underground facilities, contamination, and buried weapons. The imaging company acquires a signal from a narrow-beam-width line of the earth's electric field. Signal analysis reveals the power distribution over varying bands of frequency. Depth relates to frequency, and conductivity of materials affects power. The imaging company decodes this information and produces subsurface images. Moving along the surface, they can produce an underground map of differential power levels revealing subsurface strata, faults, fractures, and embedded objects or mineral deposits to 6,000 ft with a probable by year end of 10-12,000 ft.
It has been discovered that an as yet unacknowledged, fundamental, physical characteristic of our world: vertical lines of the earth's electric field carry subsurface information encoded as a power/frequency spectrum. Animals and insects sense this E-field, can decode it, and use it to navigate migration routes. Animals can also sense changes in the E-field induced by conductivity changes resulting from tectonic shift or other changes to geologic structure. E-field signal variations warn animals of impending earthquake. Cultures have documented changes in animal behavior as a precursor to earthquakes for thousands of years. Now we know why. The high-tech imaging can acquire that same signal and use it to predict earthquakes, sweep roads or fields for buried explosives, and locate oil, gas, and coal deposits.
Over 12 years, with different electronic components, making surveys over known geologic structure in different parts of the country, along the same ground lines, the same results are acquired: images of faults, tilted sediment, salt domes, and coal and oil deposits.
Executive Summary
Passive Imaging is a high-tech imaging company developing patented, passive sensing techniques to graphically portray subsurface objects and matter such as geologic structure, underground facilities, contamination, and buried weapons. Over time and along a linear distance, signals will be acquired from the narrow-beam-width lines of the earth's electric field using a joint time frequency analysis to define the spectral composition of the changing waveforms as we move. Plotting or printing the power-frequency spectrum will reveal subsurface strata, faults, fractures, and embedded objects or mineral deposits. It is believed that this is a discovery of a fundamental, physical characteristic of our world. The vertical lines of the earth's electric field carry information in the form of a frequency/power spectrum. It is believed that depth correlates to frequency, and that the conductivity of the material at varying depths affects the amount of power distributed to the corresponding frequency.
Science Discussion
At any given spot on earth, there is a vertical component to a known and accepted earth E-field. Various subsurface materials and geologic structure modulate the signal of the vertical component of the E-field. Completing a spectral analysis, a plot is produced using color to depict the amount of power that the conductivity of subsurface materials distributes to each frequency band. In the resulting plot or "image", the frequency bands form the vertical axis and distance along the survey line forms the horizontal axis.
This development is a relatively straightforward, yet highly innovative technology. It has been demonstrated that a signal can be acquired, analyzed, and displayed as a signal in a joint time/frequency plot. The plot reveals underground geologic structure and material. This process has been patented.
Impact
This system will have a profound effect on our world. It is expected that the system will be used to locate and identify the following: faults and fractures and changes to these geologic formations to predict serious earth tremors and quakes; oil and gas sands, shale layers, salt domes, and resulting hydrocarbon reservoirs to find additional energy reserves; underground reservoirs of salt and/or fresh water to find additional water supplies; effluents into and/or residual contamination of the ground or ground water due to accidental chemical leakage, intended chemical application, or illegal chemical dumping in an effort to detect and remediable pollution; man-made objects such as tunnels, storage sites, and other facilities so to gather intelligence and detect potentially dangerous research or manufacturing operations; land and sea mines to assist in the removal of these left-over explosives; submarines to reduce threats to national security; undersea wreckage to assist the investigation of transportation accidents; and archeological relics to add to our knowledge and understanding of earlier cultures; enabling all such endeavors and others to yet be determined to be more efficient and successful and thereby benefit all humankind.
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