Abstract:Many kinds of Hankel integral appear in electromagnetic methods. Due to the complexity of the kernel function, there are no analytic solution for these Hankel integral. Thus numerical methods for the computation of Hankel integral play an important part in electromagnetic forward modeling. Numerical filtering methods is high efficient, overcome the singularity and high oscillation of the kernel functions, and become the most important methods for numerical computation of Hankel integral. In this work, by using Hankel integral which has analytic solution and comparing five numerical filtering coefficients, the computation accuracy and error distribution have been summarized. It is showed that in approximating the analytic solution, all five numerical filtering methods have no oscillation and have high accuracy. Computation accuracy for Hankel integral decreases with increasing of transmit-receive distance, and is not improved by increasing the number of filtering coefficients. Electromagnetic fields produced by horizontal electric dipole and vertical magnetic dipole are computed by the five numerical filtering methods, and the contour of the resultant fields are substantially consistent.