It is very important to determine the magnetic object location using the magnetic anomaly. This paper presents a method for determined the magnetic object location using the geomagnetic field intensity. The magnetic object center position can be obtained by the amplitude of the analytic signal( AS) of geomagnetic total intensity. The vertical distance can be obtained by the value of magnetic anomaly on center position. But the vertical distance from measuring plane to magnetic object is not relatively precious because of not eliminating the geomagnetic normal field in the calculation process. The method of modeling geomagnetic normal field in small space is proposed based on Taylor polynomial. The impact of geomagnetic variation field for the precious of model is analyzed. Through the measured data and the model data,total intensity magnetic anomaly on the measuring plane is obtained which is used for calculating the vertical distance of magnetic object by calculating model. The experimental tests have been conducted on open field on the campus of Harbin Engineering University. The results show that the calculated results and real values match perfectly using this method.
Generally, a magnetic target can be described with six parameters, three describing the position and three describing the magnetic moment. Due to a lack of sufficient components from one magnetometer, we need more than one magnetometer when locating the magnetic target. Thus, a magnetometer array should be designed. The baseline of the array is an important factor that affects the localization accuracy of the target. In this paper, we focus on the localization of a static target by using a scalar magnetometer array. We present the scalar magnetometer array with a cross-shaped structure.We propose a method of determining the optimal baseline according to the parameters of the magnetometer and detection requirements. In the method, we use the traditional signal-to-noise ratio(SNR) as a performance index, and obtain the optimal baseline of the array by using the Monte Carlo method. The proposed method of determining the optimal baseline is verified in simulation. The arrays with different baselines are used to locate a static magnetic target. The results show that the location performance is better when using the array with the optimal baseline determined by the proposed method.
