Volume upward continuation of potential fields from the minimum-length solution: an application in environmental hazards mapping

We propose a new approach, based on the minimum-length solution of the inverse potential field problem. The method yields a volume upward continuation, and reveals to be advantageous over the classical techniques when dealing with truncated anomalies and when draped-to-level upward continuation is needed. One of the advantages of the novel approach is that the VUC (Volume Upward Continuation) method yields a volume upward continuation, and thus it may be used to extract in a simple way the continuation on any kind of surface and also to multiple levels.