This application paper introduces a suite of enhancement techniques for visualizing seismic data. These techniques provide a better understanding of the underlying propagation process in the complex time-dependent seismic data. Traditional techniques using the accumulated displacement as a scalar or vector field for volume rendering fail to capture the dynamic frequency variations, which is ess...

To date, seismic communication has been demonstrated in a single amphibian, the frog Leptodactylus albilabris. Calling males produce both acoustic and seismic signals simultaneously. The inflating vocal sac not only aids in radiating the call into the air, but also strikes the wet substrate generating vertically polarized Rayleigh waves. These animals are highly sensitive to seismic signals (-1...

Seismic interpretation can be supported by seismic attribute analysis. Common seismic attributes use mathematical relationships based on the geometry and the physical properties of the subsurface to reveal features of interest. But they are mostly not capable of describing the spatial arrangement of depositional facies or reservoir properties. Textural attributes such as the grey level co-occur...

Meteorite impacts will be a key seismic source for probing Mars’ interior during the InSight mission. Maximising data exploitation requires a good understanding of impact-generated seismic ground motions (waves), which has been limited by a lack of observational data and the practical difficulty of replicating relevant martian impact conditions in experiments. The aim of this PhD project is to ...

We demonstrate that an estimate of the point-to-point seismic propagation Green Functions can be extracted from microseisms. These estimated Green’s function, obtained from 30 days of continuous seismic data from 151 seismic stations in Southern California, are used to extract the group velocity of surface waves between all station pairs in the network. The seismic data were then used in a simp...

Passive seismic methods using earthquakes can be applied for extracting body waves and obtaining information of subsurface structure. To analyze earthquake data, one traditionally uses receiver functions, tomography, and seismic interferometry. In this study, we retrieve reflected body waves by applying seismic interferometry to the recorded ground motion from a cluster of earthquakes. We emplo...

We investigate the effects of noise on controlled-source interferometry by multi-dimensional deconvolution (MDD) for diffusive electromagnetic (EM) fields and for seismic wavefields. An electromagnetic and a seismic dataset are modeled and decomposed into upand downwards decaying and upand downgoing fields, respectively. From the decomposed fields a reflection response can be retrieved using le...

Well-log measurements and seismic measurements should be compared at the same scale. The conversion of highly detailed borehole data into less detailed seismic data has to be done in a specific way considering conclusions from scaling analysis. One has to be careful with the differentiation to convert borehole acoustic impedance into reflectivity. In addition coarsening has to occur in such a w...

Coda-wave interferometry is a technique to detect small seismic velocity changes using phase changes in similar waveforms from repeating natural or artificial sources. Seismic interferometry is another technique for detecting seismic velocity changes from cross-correlation functions of ambient seismic noise. We simultaneously use these two techniques to clarify seismic velocity changes at Sakur...