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TECHNICAL REPORT ON A FIXED WING HORIZONTAL GRADIOMETER AEROMAGNETIC SURVEY SAN BERNARDINO VALLEY, SAN BERNARDINO MOUNTAINS, SAN BERNARDINO PROFILES and TWENTY-NINE PALMS, CALIFORNIA BLOCKS CONTRACT 01CRCN0040 February 2002 for UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY by GOLDAK EXPLORATION TECHNOLOGY LTD. Goldak Exploration Technology Ltd. 25 Duncan Crescent Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Canada S7H 4K3 Tel: (306) 249-4474 Fax: (306) 249-4475 Cell: (306) 222-5104 Email: ben@ URL:  1. INTRODUCTION 4 2. SURVEY AREA LOCATION 4 Illustration – San Bernardino Valley Ideal Flight Plan 5 Illustration – San Bernardino Mountains / Profiles Ideal Flight Plan 6 Illustration – Twenty-Nine Palms Ideal Flight Plan 7 3. DATA SPECIFICATION 7 4. AIRCRAFT AND EQUIPMENT 8 4.1 Aircraft 8 Illustration – Horizontal Gradient Configuration at San Bernardino, CA 9 4.2 Magnetometer and Compensation 9 Illustration - C-GJBA Total Field Figure of Merit 11 Illustration - C-GJBA Gradients Figure of Merit 11 4.3 Magnetic Base Station 12 Illustration - Base Magnetometer Redlands Site – North View 13 Illustration - Base Magnetometer Twenty-Nine Palms Site – South View 14 4.4 VLF-EM System 14 4.5 GPS Positioning System 14 Illustration - Base GPS Redlands Site – Southwest View 16 4.6 Radar Altimeter 16 4.7 Barometric Altimeter 16 4.8 Flight Path Camera 16 4.9 GEDAS Digital Recorder 17 5. DATA PROCESSING AND PRESENTATION 17 5.1 Total Field Leveling and Magnetic Gradient Processing 17 5.2 Map Presentations 18 Illustration – San Bernardino Valley TMI Image 19 Illustration – San Bernardino Mountains Final Map 20 Illustration – San Bernardino Mountains TMI Image 20 Illustration – Twenty Nine Palms Final Map 21 Illustration – Twenty Nine Palms TMI Image 22 5.3 Multi-parameter Analog Profiles 22 5.4 Digital Data Files 22 5.5 Flight Path Video 25 6. DETAILED EQUIPMENT SPECIFICATIONS 25 Illustration – Survey Aircraft 3-View 27 7. STATEMENT OF QUALIFICATIONS 28 Appendix 1 – Weekly Progress Re