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Book Surface Wave Methods for Near Surface Site Characterization

Download or read book Surface Wave Methods for Near Surface Site Characterization written by Sebastiano Foti and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2014-08-21 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Develop a Greater Understanding of How and Why Surface Wave Testing Works Using examples and case studies directly drawn from the authors’ experience, Surface Wave Methods for Near-Surface Site Characterization addresses both the experimental and theoretical aspects of surface wave propagation in both forward and inverse modeling. This book accents the key facets associated with surface wave testing for near-surface site characterization. It clearly outlines the basic principles, the theoretical framework and the practical implementation of surface wave analysis. In addition, it also describes in detail the equipment and measuring devices, acquisition techniques, signal processing, forward and inverse modeling theories, and testing protocols that form the basis of modern surface wave techniques. Review Examples of Typical Applications for This Geophysical Technique Divided into eight chapters, the book explains surface wave testing principles from data measurement to interpretation. It effectively integrates several examples and case studies illustrating how different ground conditions and geological settings may influence the interpretation of data measurements. The authors accurately describe each phase of testing in addition to the guidelines for correctly performing and interpreting results. They present variants of the test within a consistent framework to facilitate comparisons, and include an in-depth discussion of the uncertainties arising at each stage of surface wave testing. Provides a comprehensive and in-depth treatment of all the steps involved in surface wave testing Discusses surface wave methods and their applications in various geotechnical conditions and geological settings Explains how surface wave measurements can be used to estimate both stiffness and dissipative properties of the ground Addresses the issue of uncertainty, which is often an overlooked problem in surface wave testing Includes examples with comparative analysis using different processing techniques and inversion algorithms Outlines advanced applications of surface wave testing such as joint inversion, underwater investigation, and Love wave analysis Written for geotechnical engineers, engineering seismologists, geophysicists, and researchers, Surface Wave Methods for Near-Surface Site Characterization offers practical guidance, and presents a thorough understanding of the basic concepts.

Book Full Seismic Waveform Modelling and Inversion

Download or read book Full Seismic Waveform Modelling and Inversion written by Andreas Fichtner and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-11-16 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent progress in numerical methods and computer science allows us today to simulate the propagation of seismic waves through realistically heterogeneous Earth models with unprecedented accuracy. Full waveform tomography is a tomographic technique that takes advantage of numerical solutions of the elastic wave equation. The accuracy of the numerical solutions and the exploitation of complete waveform information result in tomographic images that are both more realistic and better resolved. This book develops and describes state of the art methodologies covering all aspects of full waveform tomography including methods for the numerical solution of the elastic wave equation, the adjoint method, the design of objective functionals and optimisation schemes. It provides a variety of case studies on all scales from local to global based on a large number of examples involving real data. It is a comprehensive reference on full waveform tomography for advanced students, researchers and professionals.

Book Geophysical Characterization of Sites

Download or read book Geophysical Characterization of Sites written by Richard D. Woods and published by Science Publishers. This book was released on 1994 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Geotechnics for Sustainable Infrastructure Development

Download or read book Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Geotechnics for Sustainable Infrastructure Development written by Phung Duc Long and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 2890 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Microtremor Survey Method

Download or read book The Microtremor Survey Method written by Hiroshi Okada and published by SEG Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the nature of the microtremor noise field, the use of appropriate surface arrays of geophones, and the two principal classes of array-processing techniques, high-resolution beamforming and the spatial autocorrelation method (SPAC). This is the first comprehensive textbook of the microtremor survey method written in English.

Book Seismic Imaging  a Practical Approach

Download or read book Seismic Imaging a Practical Approach written by Jean-Luc Mari and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the geophysics of oil exploration and reservoir studies, the surface seismic method is the most commonly used method to obtain a subsurface model in 2 or 3 dimensions. This method plays an increasingly important role in soil investigations for geotechnical, hydrogeological and site characterization studies regarding seismic hazard issues. The goal of this book is to provide a practical guide, using examples from the field, to the application of seismic methods to surface imaging. After reviewing the current state of knowledge in seismic wave propagation, refraction and reflection seismic methods, the book aims to describe how seismic tomography and fullwave form inversion methods can be used to obtain seismic images of the subsurface. Through various synthetic and field examples, the book highlights the benefit of combining different sets of data: refracted waves with reflected waves, and body waves with surface waves. With field data targeting shallow structures, it shows how more accurate geophysical models can be obtained by using the proposed hybrid methods. Finally, it shows how the integration of seismic data (3D survey and VSP), logging data (acoustic logging) and core measurements, combined with a succession of specific and advanced processing techniques, enables the development of a 3D high resolution geological model in depth. In addition to these examples, the authors provide readers with guidelines to carry out these operations, in terms of acquisition, as well as processing and interpretation. In each chapter, the reader will find theoretical concepts, practical rules and, above all, actual application examples. For this reason, the book can be used as a text to accompany course lectures or continuing education seminars. This book aims to promote the exchange of information among geologists, geophysicists, and engineers in geotechnical fields.

Book Monitoring the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty  Surface Waves

Download or read book Monitoring the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Surface Waves written by Anatoli L. Levshin and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2001-09-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On September 1996, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT), prohibiting nuclear explosions worldwide, in all environments. The treaty calls for a global verification system, including a network of 321 monitoring stations distributed around the globe, a data communications network, an international data center (IDC), and on-site inspections to verify compliance. Seismic methods play the lead role in monitoring the CTBT. This volume concentrates on the measurement and use of surface waves in monitoring the CTBT. Surface waves have three principal applications in CTBT monitoring: to help discriminate nuclear explosions from other sources of seismic energy, to provide mathematical characterizations of the seismic energy that emanates from seismic sources, and to be used as data in inversion for the seismic velocity structure of the crust and uppermost mantle for locating small seismic events regionally. The papers in this volume fall into two general categories: the development and/or application of methods to summarize information in surface waves, and the use of these summaries to advance the art of surface-wave identification, measurement, and source characterization. These papers cut across essentially all of the major applications of surface waves to monitoring the CTBT. This volume therefore provides a general introduction to the state of research in this area and should be useful as a guide for further exploration.

Book Conference on Inverse Scattering  Theory and Application

Download or read book Conference on Inverse Scattering Theory and Application written by J. Bee Bednar and published by SIAM. This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book 3D Multi parameters Full Waveform Inversion for Challenging 3D Elastic Land Targets

Download or read book 3D Multi parameters Full Waveform Inversion for Challenging 3D Elastic Land Targets written by Phuong-Thu Trinh and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seismic imaging of onshore targets is very challenging due to the 3D complex near-surface-related effects. In such areas, the seismic wavefield is dominated by elastic and visco-elastic effects such as highly energetic and dispersive surface waves. The interaction of elastic waves with the rough topography and shallow heterogeneities leads to significant converted and scattering energies, implying that both accurate 3D geometry representation and correct physics of the wave propagation are required for a reliable structured imaging. In this manuscript, we present an efficient and flexible full waveform inversion (FWI) strategy for velocity model building in land, specifically in foothill areas.Viscoelastic FWI is a challenging task for current acquisition deployment at the crustal scale. We propose an efficient formulation based on a time-domain spectral element method (SEM) on a flexible Cartesian-based mesh, in which the topography variation is represented by an accurate high-order geometry interpolation. The wave propagation is described by the anisotropic elasticity and isotropic attenuation physics. The numerical implementation of the forward problem includes efficient matrix-vector products for solving second-order elastodynamic equations, even for completely deformed 3D geometries. Complete misfit gradient expressions including attenuation contribution spread into density, elastic parameters and attenuation factors are given in a consistent way. Combined adjoint and forward fields recomputation from final state and previously saved boundary values allows the estimation of gradients with no I/O efforts. Two-levels parallelism is implemented over sources and domain decomposition, which is necessary for 3D realistic configuration. The gradient preconditioning is performed by a so-called Bessel filter using an efficient differential implementation based on the SEM discretization on the forward mesh instead of the costly convolution often-used approach. A non-linear model constraint on the ratio of compressional and shear velocities is introduced into the optimization process at no extra cost.The challenges of the elastic multi-parameter FWI in complex land areas are highlighted through synthetic and real data applications. A 3D synthetic inverse-crime illustration is considered on a subset of the SEAM phase II Foothills model with 4 lines of 20 sources, providing a complete 3D illumination. As the data is dominated by surface waves, it is mainly sensitive to the S-wave velocity. We propose a two-steps data-windowing strategy, focusing on early body waves before considering the entire wavefield, including surface waves. The use of this data hierarchy together with the structurally-based Bessel preconditioning make possible to reconstruct accurately both P- and S-wavespeeds. The designed inversion strategy is combined with a low-to-high frequency hierarchy, successfully applied to the pseudo-2D dip-line survey of the SEAM II Foothill dataset. Under the limited illumination of a 2D acquisition, the model constraint on the ratio of P- and S-wavespeeds plays an important role to mitigate the ill-posedness of the multi-parameter inversion process. By also considering surface waves, we manage to exploit the maximum amount of information in the observed data to get a reliable model parameters estimation, both in the near-surface and in deeper part.The developed FWI frame and workflow are finally applied on a real foothill dataset. The application is challenging due to sparse acquisition design, especially noisy recording and complex underneath structures. Additional prior information such as the logs data is considered to assist the FWI design. The preliminary results, only relying on body waves, are shown to improve the kinematic fit and follow the expected geological interpretation. Model quality control through data-fit analysis and uncertainty studies help to identify artifacts in the inverted models.

Book Surface Wave Analysis for Near Surface Applications

Download or read book Surface Wave Analysis for Near Surface Applications written by Giancarlo Dal Moro and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seismic Wave Analysis for Near Surface Applications presents the foundational tools necessary to properly analyze surface waves acquired according to both active and passive techniques. Applications range from seismic hazard studies, geotechnical surveys and the exploration of extra-terrestrial bodies. Surface waves have become critical to near-surface geophysics both for geotechnical goals and seismic-hazard studies. Included in this book are the related theories, approaches and applications which the lead editor has assembled from a range of authored contributions carefully selected from the latest developments in research. A unique blend of theory and practice, the book’s concepts are based on exhaustive field research conducted over the past decade from the world’s leading seismologists and geophysicists. Edited by a geophysicist with nearly 20 years of experience in research, consulting, and geoscience software development Nearly 100 figures, photographs, and examples aid in the understanding of fundamental concepts and techniques Presents the latest research in seismic wave characteristics and analysis, the fundamentals of signal processing, wave data acquisition and inversion, and the latest developments in horizontal-to-vertical spectral ratio (HVSR) Each chapter features a real-world case study—13 in all—to bring the book’s key principles to life

Book Geophysics and Geosequestration

Download or read book Geophysics and Geosequestration written by Thomas L. Davis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-09 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An overview of the geophysical techniques and analysis methods for monitoring subsurface carbon dioxide storage for researchers and industry practitioners.

Book Innovation in Near Surface Geophysics

Download or read book Innovation in Near Surface Geophysics written by Raffaele Persico and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2018-10-05 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Innovation in Near-Surface Geophysics: Instrumentation, Application, and Data Processing Methods offers an advanced look at state-of-the-art and innovative technologies for near surface geophysics, exposing the latest, most effective techniques in an accessible way. By addressing a variety of geophysical applications, including cultural heritage, civil engineering, characteristics of soil, and others, the book provides an understanding of the best products and methodologies modern near surface geophysics has to offer. It proposes tips for new ideas and projects, and encourages collaboration across disciplines and techniques for the best implementation and results. Clearly organized, with contributions from leaders from throughout geophysics, Innovation in Near-Surface Geophysics is an important guide for geophysicists who hope to gain a better understanding of the tools and techniques available. Addresses a variety of applications in near-surface geophysics, including cultural heritage, civil engineering, soil analysis, etc. Provides insight to available products and techniques and offers suggestions for future developments Clearly organized by techniques and their applications

Book Near Surface Applied Geophysics

Download or read book Near Surface Applied Geophysics written by Mark E. Everett and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-25 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just a few meters below the Earth's surface lie features of great importance, from geological faults which can produce devastating earthquakes, to lost archaeological treasures. This refreshing, up-to-date book explores the foundations of interpretation theory and the latest developments in near-surface techniques, used to complement traditional geophysical methods for deep-exploration targets. Clear but rigorous, the book explains theory and practice in simple physical terms, supported by intermediate-level mathematics. Techniques covered include magnetics, resistivity, seismic reflection and refraction, surface waves, induced polarization, self-potential, electromagnetic induction, ground-penetrating radar, magnetic resonance, interferometry, seismoelectric and more. Sections on data analysis and inverse theory are provided and chapters are illustrated by case studies, giving students and professionals the tools to plan, conduct and analyze a near-surface geophysical survey. This is an important textbook for advanced-undergraduate and graduate students in geophysics and a valuable reference for practising geophysicists, geologists, hydrologists, archaeologists, and civil and geotechnical engineers.

Book Advances in Near surface Seismology and Ground penetrating Radar  Volume 15

Download or read book Advances in Near surface Seismology and Ground penetrating Radar Volume 15 written by Richard D. Miller and published by SEG Books. This book was released on 2010-01-11 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advances in Near-surface Seismology and Ground-penetrating Radar (SEG Geophysical Developments Series No. 15) is a collection of original papers by renowned and respected authors from around the world. Technologies used in the application of near-surface seismology and ground-penetrating radar have seen significant advances in the last several years. Both methods have benefited from new processing tools, increased computer speeds, and an expanded variety of applications. This book, divided into four sections--"Reviews," "Methodology," "Integrative Approaches," and "Case Studies"--Captures the most significant cutting-edge issues in active areas of research, unveiling truly pertinent studies that address fundamental applied problems. This collection of manuscripts grew from a core group of papers presented at a post-convention workshop, "Advances in Near-surface Seismology and Ground-penetrating Radar," held during the 2009 SEG Annual Meeting in Houston, Texas. This is the first cooperative publication effort between the near-surface communities of SEG, AGU, and EEGS. It will appeal to a large and diverse audience that includes researchers and practitioners inside and outside the near-surface geophysics community. --Publisher description.

Book Numerical Optimization

    Book Details:
  • Author : Joseph-Frédéric Bonnans
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2013-03-14
  • ISBN : 3662050781
  • Pages : 421 pages

Download or read book Numerical Optimization written by Joseph-Frédéric Bonnans and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book starts with illustrations of the ubiquitous character of optimization, and describes numerical algorithms in a tutorial way. It covers fundamental algorithms as well as more specialized and advanced topics for unconstrained and constrained problems. This new edition contains computational exercises in the form of case studies which help understanding optimization methods beyond their theoretical description when coming to actual implementation.

Book 75 Years of Progress

Download or read book 75 Years of Progress written by and published by Jim Christianson. This book was released on 1958-06-23 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Local history book commemorating the first seventy-five years, 1882-1958, of Pelican Rapids, Otter Tail County, Minnesota.