In the past ten years, volume rendering tools have been progressively adopted by the geophysical community. The emergence of high-end graphics workstations with 3D texture capabilities made real-time volume rendering possible. Many interactive volume rendering packages are now available for seismic interpretation. However, interpretation is still mostly done in 2D. This is mainly due to the hig...

Structural engineers have measured a building’s response to strong motion from civil structures that have been instrumented with accelerometers, such as the Robert A. Millikan Library of the California Institute of Technology. The attenuation of the motion of this building has been measured using seismic interferometry techniques in the past. We use the breaking of the temporal symmetry of the ...

Ocean ambient noise results from both anthropogenic and natural sources. Different noise sources are dominant in each of 3 frequency bands: low (10 to 500 Hz), medium (500 Hz to 25 kHz) and high (>25 kHz). The low-frequency band is dominated by anthropogenic sources: primarily, commercial shipping and, secondarily, seismic exploration. Shipping and seismic sources contribute to ambient noise ac...

We present an analysis of seismic noise recorded during 1995–2004 by a medium-aperture, short-period seismic array located in Chiang Mai, Thailand (CMAR). We calculated frequency-wavenumber spectra for nearly 1000 randomly selected time windows, each with a length of 160 sec. At frequencies above about 1.4 Hz the noise is unorganized and the wavenumber spectra are isotropic and diffuse; however...

A unique filtering approach designed to eliminating power-line noise on shallow seismic data without affecting the frequency content of signal provides a powerful harmonic noise suppression tool for data acquired with modern large dynamic range recording systems. Amplitudes and phases of sinusoids (functions of power-line noise) present before the first arrivals can be estimated using the Leven...

Conventional resonant bar tests allow the measurement of seismic properties of rocks and sediments at low frequencies (several kilohertz). However, the tests require a long, slender sample which is often difficult to obtain from the deep subsurface and weak and fractured formations. We present an alternative low-frequency measurement technique to the conventional resonant bar tests. This techni...

in exploration seismology quality factor is widely used as a seismic attribute to identify anomalies related to attenuation, especially those caused by hydrocarbon. previous studies have indicated that seismic energy loss known as attenuation is greater for high frequency components of seismic data compared to the low frequency components. here the continuous wavelet transform is used to study ...

Target classification is one of the most important issues in battlefield situational awareness. As seismic signals are an effective means of obtaining such information, any knowledge of the subsurface environment in which the target signal propagates is very important in either developing or fine-tuning classification algorithms. Seismic signal attenuation is an essential subsurface environment...

s the use of 3D seismic interpretation continues to become part of the main stream work process with the industry, visualization techniques also continue to evolve as software and hardware improves. In the past 10 years, volume rendering tools have been progressively adopted by the geophysical community as the emergence of high-end graphics workstations with 3D texture capabilities made real-ti...