Imaging subsurface structures using reflections retrieved from seismic interferometry with sources of opportunity: invited paper

Deyan Draganov, Yohei Nishitsuji, Boris Boullenger, Shohei Minato, Kees Wapenaar, Jan Willem Thorbecke, Elmer Ruigrok, Charlotte Rowe, Bob Paap, Arie Verdel, Martin Gomez

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Abstract

The reflection seismic method is the most frequently used exploration method for imaging and monitoring subsurface structures with high resolution. It has proven its qualities from the scale of regional seismology to the scale of near-surface applications that look just a few meters below the surface. The reflection method uses controlled active sources at known positions to give rise to reflections recorded at known receiver positions. The reflections’ two-wave travel time is used to extract desired information about and image the subsurface structures. When active sources are unavailable or undesired, one can retrieve body-wave reflections from application of seismic interferometry (SI) to sources of opportunity—quakes, tremors, ambient noise, or even man-made sources not connected to the exploration campaign. We show examples of imaging of subsurface structures using reflections retrieved from quakes and ambient noise. We apply SI by autocorrelation to global earthquake to image seismic and aseismic parts of the Nazca plate and the Moho at these places, SI by multidimensional deconvolution to P-wave coda from local earthquakes to image the Moho and the crust at the same places, and SI by autocorrelation to deep moonquakes to image the lunar Moho and to ambient noise to monitor CO2 sequestration.
Original languageEnglish
Article number1pUWb4
Pages (from-to)3527-3527
JournalJournal of the Acoustical Society of America
Volume141
Issue number5, Pt.2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2017
Event3rd Joint Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and the European Acoustics Association - Boston, United States
Duration: 25 Jun 201729 Jun 2017
Conference number: 3
http://acousticalsociety.org/content/acoustics-17-boston

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