Re:Almost 25% of world’s seafloor now mapped
by walrus01 on Monday October 17, 2022 @08:15PM
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My understanding of the physics is that SQUIDs only work at distances of max of 50-100mm, not more...
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Re:Almost 25% of world’s seafloor now mapped
by etiam on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @06:08AM
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You seem generally very knowledgeable about this environment and I'm by no means an expert in the SQUID, but the way I understand it it's effectively a magnetometer with sensitivity down to about femtotesla scale. Clearly that could in principle pick up the magnetic effects of many objects well beyond a decimeter, even with consideration of the field rapidly declining with distance.
The main problem in using it, as I understand it, is rather that picking up everything the sensor could detect would usually result in an unmanageable deluge of unwanted information, and it's a normal operation context to filter the signal for distance so as to not pick up too much interference from equipment, staff, etc. But personally I don't see any reason it would be impossible to arrange it to band-pass instead of low-pass in that filtering.