Abstract:With the development of urban construction, a large number of pipelines are laid by using trenchless techniques, and pipelines are buried deeper and deeper. Conventional geophysical prospecting methods will be difficult to meet the needs of actual detection work. At present, the borehole magnetic gradient method is one of the commonly used detection methods for deep-buried pipelines. It is mainly used to detect the deep-buried metal pipelines. However, in actual engineering, the quantitative analysis method of deep buried pipeline is often lack only by the quantitative judgment of magnetic gradient anomaly and extreme value anomaly. Through a combination of data simulation and engineering examples, an in-depth exploration of the problem of borehole magnetic gradient detection for underground metal pipelines is carried out. Through the curve fitting of the model forward data, the fitting relationship between the effective magnetization inclination, the horizontal distance between the borehole and the pipeline, the pipeline buried depth and the simulated magnetic gradient value and its corresponding depth is determined. This relationship is used to estimate the level position and burial depth of the pipeline in order to achieve the quantitative analysis of the target pipeline. And combined with the engineering examples, the feasibility of the estimation formula is proved.