SEMINAR: Moving-base Gradiometry without Gradiometers: Mission Impossible?

Devices called GRADIOMETERS are well known instruments which have been designed for measuring the first spatial derivatives of physical fields (gravitational, magnetic, electromagnetic..). Moving-base gradiometry is an extremely challenging multi-discipline technology area that has been declared as a "holy grail" for applications like geophysical prospecting for oil & gas, minerals, water and for some other non-geophysical applications. This talk is about another option for measuring gradients in motion without using gradiometers as such. In the first look it is a Mission Impossible. However, new emerging technologies provide a basis for making this Mission Possible. I will describe how collaboration between The Australian International Gravitational Research Centre and the Centre for Gravitational Experiments of the Huazhong University of Science and Technology (Wuhan, China) has led to a new quest for this exciting new possibility.