Thanks to all responses to my enquiry . They are all via SEGMIN (as it 
happens), and none via GRVMAG.

There were several views expressed, all the way from “surely its intuitively 
obvious” to “got to be an extension of Shannon’s sampling theorem”.

I’m personally wary of “intuitively obvious”, because my 1980 paper on 
cross-line aliasing was recommended for rejection by referees and AE, because 
something entirely erroneous was intuitively obvious to them. I was just lucky 
that Mike Schoenberger, the then Editor, had a broader intuition….

The one I’m following up on (thanks very much Andrea) is from Andrea Balza of 
EDCON, passing on information from Alan Herring. Essentially its that the 
Papoulis paper and book expounding an extension of Shannon’s sampling theorem 
does the job. So It HAS been published,. Just not anywhere directly accessible 
to the Geophysical community.

Regards

Alan Reid
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On 19 Feb 2019, at 20:05, Andrea Balza 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

Greetings Alan

My name is Andrea Balza. I work for EDCON-PRJ and noted that Richard Hansen was 
noted in your email. I asked Alan Herring and Michael Hall if they could answer 
your question. Here is what Alan said :

"It is my understanding that this idea is attributed to the theorem of 
Papoulis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athanasios_Papoulis

Alan "

In that link there is the sampling theorem link 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyquist%E2%80%93Shannon_sampling_theorem  which I 
believe explains the proof.

I also have parts of Papoulis book on the Generalized Sampling Expansion. I 
could ask Mike Hall to see if I can get them to you if they are of interest.

Hope this helps!


On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 1:46 AM Alan Reid via SEGMIN 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Dear GrvMag and SEGMin listers

I’m addressing both lists because the matter concerns both…

Years ago, the late great Richard Hansen told me he’d proved that, for a 
conventional airborne magnetic total field survey, cross-line gradient 
measurements gave you the equivalent of halving the line spacing. The proof was 
for noise-free data, but hey, it's an indication of a usefulness that’s widely 
recognised and exploited.

I subsequently asked Richard for his proof and he’d lost it, but he re-proved 
it another way. Regrettably, I’ve now also lost that proof. And Richard is no 
longer available to ask……  Hence the enquiry and the challenge.

1. Does anyone know of a published proof?  If so, please may we have the 
reference (and even maybe a link to a pdf?

2. If not, does anyone have a proof they’d be prepared to offer for 
publication. I’d happily welcome it to “Geophysical Prospecting”, and I’m sure 
“Geophysics” and some other journals would be equally welcoming.

3. If neither of the above, the challenge is to produce a proof. It’d make a 
decent basis for an MSc,  a pretty chapter in a PhD, and/or a worthwhile paper. 
From a personal perspective, it’d also “complete” the survey design criteria I 
published in 1980.

Regards

Alan B Reid PhD
Reid Geophysics Ltd
7 Keymer House
Michel Grove
Eastbourne BN21 1JZ
UK

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