Fast algorithm for apparent resistivity calculation based on back propagation neural networks

To avoid the complex numerical calculation for the electromagnetic field and determine underground abnormality, a neural network based method is proposed. In consideration of turn off transmitter current, the effect of a linear ramp turn off current on transmitter is corrected. The characteristics of transient expression and the traditional calculation algorithm for apparent resistivity are analyzed, and a predigest structure of network is obtained based on the kernel expression. The three layer back propagation(BP) neural network is trained by using sample data in homogeneous half space, and its number in hidden layer was determined. The method proposed is compared with two traditional calculation methods with simulation experiments. The result demonstrates that BP neural network has a high speed of processing data and is useful in explanation of the transient electromagnetic method.