Thirteen seismic profiles totaling 242 km were reprocessed in the Mackenzie Delta area in order to map the shallow gas hydrated deposits and to map detail structure around the proposed drill site for the gas hydrate research program. Seismic data were acquired for conventional oil exploration purposes in this area in the middle of 1980, so the field parameters were not optimum for the shallow s...

We have analyzed the far-field approximation of the Green’s function representation for seismic interferometry. By writing each of the Green’s functions involved in the correlation process as a superposition of a direct wave and a scattered wave, the Green’s function representation is rewritten as a superposition of four terms. When the scattered waves are modeled with the Born approximation, i...

Fluid migration pathways in the subsurface are heavily influenced by pre-existing faults. Although studies of active fluid-escape structures can provide insights into the relationships between faults and fluid flow, they cannot fully constrain the geometry of and controls on the contemporaneous subsurface fluid flow pathways. We use 3D seismic reflection data from offshore NW Australia to map 1...

Fluid circulation at fractured basement/cover unconformity is of first importance for geothermal energy exploitation especially in continental rifting as the Upper Rhine Graben. This unconformity presents lot of natural fractures which constitute a large permeable fracture network driving brine movement. That constitutes a reservoir of hot water, which is exploited by several geothermal power p...

Recent seismicity and swarm activity in the northern Red Sea have been examined in relation to the tectonics and structures indicated by surface geology and marine magnetic anomalies. Seismicity appears to be low compared to the rest of the Red Sea. Sixty eight earthquakes recorded during the period 1964-1993 had body-wave magnitudes between 3.8 and 6. On 18 February 1992, a swarm of earthquake...

S U M M A R Y One way of developing a wave-equation approach to seismic imaging is based on the concept of downward continuation of observed surface reflection data. Seismic imaging is typically based on the single scattering approximation, and assumes the knowledge of a smooth background model in which the mentioned downward continuation is carried out using the double-squareroot (DSR) equatio...

An approach to detect and image multiple damages in a platelike structure is presented. A structural health monitoring system (SHMS) with a linear array of actuators/sensors is proposed. The integrated actuators/sensors are used to activate/receive lowest-order antisymmetric A0 mode Lamb waves. A migration technique used in geophysical exploration and seismic prospecting is adopted to interpret...