Table of Contents

I Introduction to Field Theory1 Differential Calculus of Vector Fields and Differential Forms2 Foundations of Field TheoryII Foundations of Electromagnetic Theory3 Electromagnetic Field Equations4 Models of Electromagnetic Induction in the Earth5 Electromagnetic Fields in Horizontally Stratified Media6 Electromagnetic Fields in Inhomogeneous MediaIII Inversion and Imaging of ElectromagneticField Data7 Principles of Ill-Posed Inverse Problem Solution8 Electromagnetic Inversion9 Electromagnetic MigrationIV Geophysical Electromagneticmethods10 Electromagnetic Properties of Rocks and Minerals11 Generation and Measurement of Electromagnetic Fields in GeophysicalApplications12 Direct Current and Induced Polarization Methods13 Magnetotelluric and Magnetovariational Methods14 Electromagnetic Methods in the Frequency and Time Domains15 Marine Electromagnetic Methods16 Other Platforms, Other MethodologiesA Algebra of Differential FormsB Calculus of Differential FormsC Mathematical NotationsD Definition of Fields and UnitsE Linear Operators and Their Matrices

About the Author

Michael Zhdanov has been Professor at the University of Utah, Utah, USA, since 1993 and has been a director of CEMI since 1995. He received a Ph. D in 1970 from Moscow State University. He was a professor at the Moscow Academy of Oil and Gas, and head of the Department of Deep Electromagnetic Study before moving to the University of Utah. He was awarded an Honorary Diploma of Gauss Professorship by the Gottingen Academy of Sciences, Germany, in 1990 and was elected a full member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences in 1991. He received an Honorary Professorship from the China National Center of Geological Exploration Technology in 1997 and an Honorary Membership Award from the Society of Exploration Geophysicists in 2013. Dr. Zhdanov was elected as the Distinguished Professor at the University of Utah in 2016. He has been a Fellow of the Electromagnetics Academy, since 2002.