Sensing Platform Technologies of the Transient Electromagnetic Method for Urban Underground Space Detection: Challenges and Advances
Abstract
As urban underground spaces and infrastructure development accelerate, subsurface elements such as buried pipelines, integrated utility tunnels, subway tunnels, cavity defects, and deep-seated hidden hazards become increasingly intertwined. Consequently, urban target detection is characterized by pronounced scale discrepancies, intense environmental interference, and severely confined operational spaces. The transient electromagnetic method (TEM) is highly valuable for rapid surveys and hazard identification in urban underground spaces owing to its inherent advantages, including non-contact operation, adaptability to hardened pavements, high sensitivity to low-resistivity anomalies, and the ability to probe a broad range of depths. In recent years, research has shifted from improving isolated instrumentation to synergistically optimizing sensing platforms, transmitter-receiver systems, anti-interference methodologies, and imaging interpretation workflows. Specifically, small-loop configurations and high-frequency excitation technologies have improved shallow-sounding capabilities in confined urban spaces; anti-interference techniques have increased data reliability in complex noise environments; and apparent resistivity mapping, virtual wave-field migration, and rapid inversion methodologies have enabled profiling results to transition from qualitative identification to fine-scale interpretation. Concurrently, the evolution of ground-towed, UAV-borne, helicopter-borne, and…
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