Continuous seismic-reflection profiling (CSP) and ground-penetrating radar (GPR) surveys were conducted by the U.S. Geological Survey in April 1998 over the northern part of John’s Pond, a glacial kettle pond southeast of Otis Air National Guard Base, Cape Cod, Massachusetts. The surveys were conducted to delineate the types and thickness of sedimentary units that may control the infiltration o...

We have developed a cepstral simulation and inversion algorithm for analysis of regional seismic recordings of underwater explosions that determines the yield and depth of the explosions. The spectra of seismic recordings of the underwater blasts have strong time-independent spectral scalloping produced by the correlated bubble pulses and echoes of acoustic reflections from the water surface an...

As part of a total geophysical evaluation of Yucca Mountain for use as a Nuclear Waste Repository the seismic reflection technique has been applied. This study has been conducted to analyze the historical and technical efforts which have been used by three geophysical contractors employing a wide variety of techniques ranging from the most simple to very elaborate 3-D surveys. In each case elab...

Recently, a novel iterative scheme was proposed to retrieve Green’s functions in an unknown medium from its single-sided reflection response and an estimate of the propagation velocity. In Marchenko imaging, these Green’s functions are used for seismic imaging with complete wavefields, including internal multiple reflections. In this way, common artifacts from these internal reflections are avo...

the radial trace transform was introduced by the stanford exploration project many years ago (ottolini, 1979 and claerbout, 1983), primarily for use in migration and imaging applications. it has been shown subsequently, because of its particular geometry, to be very useful for wavefield separation (claerbout, 1983) and coherent noise attenuation (henley, 1999). the radial trace transform, unlik...