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Application to a terrestrial passive seismic dataset

Since Claerbout (1968) described the process of creating reflection seismograms by autocorrelating transmission seismograms, terrestrial geophysicists have been trying similar methods to obtain active-source seismograms from passive seismic data, but without the success of the helioseismologists.

Baskir and Weller (1975) attempted to use passive seismic energy to image subsurface reflectivity. They briefly describe crosscorrelating long seismic records to produce correlograms that could be processed, stacked and displayed as conventional seismic data. Unfortunately their field tests seem to have been inconclusive.

Cole (1995) also attempted to create impulsive reflection seismograms from passive data with data collected using a 4000 channel 2-D field array on Stanford campus. Unfortunately, again, possibly due to the short (20 minute) records or bad coupling between the geophones and the dry California soil, his results were inconclusive.



 
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Stanford Exploration Project
5/27/2001