TEMcompany started with the dream of building next-generation imaging solutions for solving today’s water problems.
This dream grew from research in the HydroGeophysics Group at Aarhus University, where work has focused on geophysical imaging systems for over 30 years.
During this time, the limited performance of the commercial instruments available to the department caused deep frustration. The research was consistently pushing for better, faster, and more robust measurements and transparency on the instruments’ influences on data. These influences are known to alter measured data significantly but are often ignored, regarded as industry secrets or not of interest to manufacturers.
The team at the university was consistently driving TEM technologies forward but became increasingly frustrated at the speed at which the academic outputs permeated into the broader commercial sector. These frustrations propelled the decision to found TEMcompany to build better, more reliable and best-value instruments in the water sector.
In 2015, during a meeting with long-time partners in Central Region Denmark, they highlighted the problem that tracking the migration of effluents was severely hindered by an inability to image the geological layers controlling the water flow accurately. Based on years of past work with the SkyTEM system, we proposed developing a fast transient electromagnetic towed system tailored to delivering much-needed high-resolution rapid mapping capabilities at the tens of hectares scale.