A return to passive seismic imaging

Brad Artman

brad@sep.stanford.edu

ABSTRACT

Rekindling the passive seismic imaging effort at Stanford, I have acquired grants with Simon Klemperer of the Stanford Crustal Research Group from both the Petroleum Research Fund and the National Science Foundation to pursue two- and three-dimensional imaging efforts of the subsurface in a passive listening methodology. Utilizing the outstanding SEP hardware and software infrastructure and expertise, I have begun to build the resources necessary to manipulate the massive datasets toward producing an image. Efforts to acquire several existing datasets that seem to fit the requirements of this method are presently underway, while 180 Gbytes of the Santa Clara Valley Seismic Experiment from 1998 arrived in house on the first of March.