{"id":104,"date":"2015-07-22T15:59:23","date_gmt":"2015-07-22T15:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/airborne.geophysicsgpr.com\/?page_id=104"},"modified":"2017-03-10T15:55:03","modified_gmt":"2017-03-10T15:55:03","slug":"gamma-spectrometry","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/airborne.geophysicsgpr.com\/en\/techniques\/gamma-spectrometry\/","title":{"rendered":"Gamma-Spectrometry"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Airborne gamma-ray spectrometry surveys consist of mapping the occurrence of naturally occurring Potassium40<\/sup> (K) concentration and equivalent Uranium238<\/sup> (U) and Thorium232<\/sup> (Th) concentration on the survey\u2019s surface. This is a particularly useful tool for geological mapping of rock alteration and concentration of radioactive element.<\/p>\n

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The 512-channel gamma-ray spectrometer detects gamma-rays originating from the disintegration of radioactive element\u2019s nuclide. Out of the three main geological radioactive elements, only Potassium40 emits gamma-rays directly. Uranium238<\/sup> and Thorium232<\/sup>\u00a0emit gamma-rays through their decay series. It is the 1.76MeV gamma-ray emitted by Bi214<\/sup>, which is considered a diagnostic of U238<\/sup> and the 2.61MeV gamma-rays emitted by Tl208<\/sup> that is considered a diagnostic for Th232<\/sup>. The reason for this is that neither U238<\/sup> nor Th232<\/sup> emit gamma-ray and those given off by the other daughters between U238<\/sup> and Bi214<\/sup> or Th232<\/sup> and Tl208<\/sup> in their decay series are of lower energy and are difficult to resolve.<\/p>\n

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This is the reason why the concentrations of Uranium and Thorium are considered equivalent assuming that U238<\/sup> and Th232<\/sup> and their daughters are in equilibrium, which happens after 2 million years for U238<\/sup>, and after 100 years for Th232<\/sup> if none of the decay series\u2019 elements are removed during that time.<\/p>\n

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GPR propose the AGRS\u00a0gamma-ray spectrometer.\u00a0The AGRS series of gamma-ray spectrometers are widely used in geological and geophysical exploration and mapping as well as environmental and nuclear surveillance.<\/p>\n

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Advantages of the AGRS system for Gamma-Spectrometry<\/strong><\/h1>\n

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The AGRS system is a self-calibrating Gamma Ray spectrometer using NaI (Tl) large volume detector arrays. Individual, independent, detector processing provides real time gain and linearity correction. All dedicated electronics modules are housed within the detector\u2019s container. \u00a0With its high degree of accuracy and its reliability.\u00a0The system\u2019s stabilization algorithm makes these spectrometer systems fully automated and self-stabilizing on natural radioactive elements. This eliminates the requirement for regular, time consuming, and frequent system checking and re-calibration. Furthermore, it provides excellent accuracy and reliability of the gamma-ray measurements. New design techniques for the electronics peak detection almost completely eliminate 'pulse pile up' and 'Dead Time' effects.<\/p>\n

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Ongoing research to improve the system stabilization algorithms make these spectrometer systems fully automated and self-stabilizing on natural radioactive elements. This eliminates the requirement for regular, time consuming, and frequent system checking and re-calibration by the user. Furthermore it provides excellent accuracy and reliability of the gamma measurements.<\/p>\n

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For more information, please contact our Airborne Survey Team<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Airborne gamma-ray spectrometry surveys consist of mapping the occurrence of naturally occurring Potassium40 (K) concentration and equivalent Uranium238 (U) and Thorium232 (Th) concentration on the survey\u2019s surface. This is a particularly useful tool for geological mapping of rock alteration and concentration of radioactive element.\u00a0The 512-channel gamma-ray spectrometer detects gamma-rays originating from the disintegration of radioactive… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":632,"parent":13,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-full-width.php","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-104","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/airborne.geophysicsgpr.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/airborne.geophysicsgpr.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/airborne.geophysicsgpr.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/airborne.geophysicsgpr.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/airborne.geophysicsgpr.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/airborne.geophysicsgpr.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1025,"href":"https:\/\/airborne.geophysicsgpr.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/104\/revisions\/1025"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/airborne.geophysicsgpr.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/airborne.geophysicsgpr.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/airborne.geophysicsgpr.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}