Passive Seismic Tomography
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Overview
Passive Seismic Tomography (PST) is a technique developed in the early 80s by K. Aki and students at MIT to image the subsurface of the earth. For sources in PST, we use small earthquakes instead of explosions or vibroseis, as is used in traditional active source acquisitions. Thus for PST, we need an active tectonic region where there is microseismicity that can be used as a source. Any tectonically active region can be imaged using PST, provided there are enough earthquakes beneath and in and around the target of interest.
Let ISTI develop a monitoring solution for your region of interest. We have the expertise, hardware, and staff to provide you with a complete end-to-end PST solution, or if you already have a network running, we can use your data with our workflow to provide you with a complete 3D image.
ISTI has developed an efficient workflow for processing data from a microseismic network to produce a 3D velocity image using our PST techniques. ISTI’s seismologists, Ilya Dricker and Paul Friberg, have been performing PST for industry using advanced techniques for many years (i.e., we use finite difference Eikonal equation solvers for ray tracing). ISTI works with leading researchers in this field to improve our workflow’s algorithms and provide high-precision relative locations using double-differencing techniques (Waldhauser and Ellsworth, 2000) also using 3D velocity models.
