scholarly journals Near surface structure of Sodankylä area in Finland, obtained by advanced method of passive seismic interferometry

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nikita Afonin ◽  
Elena Kozlovskaya ◽  
Suvi Heinonen ◽  
Stefan Buske
Keyword(s):  
Seismic Data ◽  
Seismic Exploration ◽  
Seismic Interferometry ◽  
Near Surface ◽  
Reflection Seismic ◽  
Velocity Models ◽  
Registration Period ◽  
Geological Conditions ◽  
Passive Seismic ◽  
Passive Data

Abstract. Controlled-source seismic exploration surveys are not always possible in nature-protected areas. As an alternative, application of passive seismic techniques in such areas can be proposed. In our study, we show results of passive seismic interferometry application for mapping the uppermost crust in the area of active mineral exploration in Northern Finland. We are utilizing continuous seismic data acquired by Sercel Unite Wireless multichannel recording system along several profiles during XSoDEx (eXperiment of SOdankylä Deep Exploration) project. The objective of the project was to obtain a structural image of the upper crust in the Sodankylä area of Northern Finland in order to achieve a better understanding of the mineral system at depth. The key experiment of the project was a high-resolution seismic reflection experiment, and continuous passive seismic data was acquired in parallel with reflection seismic data acquisition. Due to this, the length of passive data suitable for noise cross-correlation was limited to several hours. In addition, analysis of the passive data demonstrated that dominating sources of ambient noise are non-stationary and have different origin across the XSoDEx study area. As the long data registration period and isotropic azimuthal distribution of noise sources are two major conditions for diffuse wavefield necessary for Empirical Green's Functions (EGFs) extraction, the conventional techniques of passive seismic interferometry was not possible to apply. To find the way to obtain EGFs, we used numerical modelling to investigate the properties of seismic noise originating from sources with different characteristics and propagating inside synthetic heterogeneous Earth models that models real geological conditions in the XSodEx study area. The modelling demonstrated that scattering of ballistic waves on irregular shape heterogeneities, such as massive sulphides or mafic intrusions, could produce diffused wavefield composed mainly of scattered surface waves. This scattered wavefield can be used to retrieve reliable Empirical Green Functions (EGFs) from short-term and non-stationary data, using a special technique called signal-to-noise ratio stacking (SNRS). The EGFs calculated for the XSoDEx profiles were inverted in order to obtain S-wave velocity models down to the depth of 300 meters. The obtained velocity models agree well with geological data and complement the results of reflection seismic data interpretation.

scholarly journals Near-surface structure of the Sodankylä area in Finland, obtained by passive seismic interferometry

Solid Earth ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (7) ◽  
pp. 1563-1579
Author(s):  
Nikita Afonin ◽  
Elena Kozlovskaya ◽  
Suvi Heinonen ◽  
Stefan Buske
Keyword(s):  
Seismic Data ◽  
Seismic Interferometry ◽  
Near Surface ◽  
Reflection Seismic ◽  
Velocity Models ◽  
Registration Period ◽  
Empirical Green Function ◽  
Geological Conditions ◽  
Passive Seismic ◽  
Passive Data

Abstract. Controlled-source seismic exploration surveys are not always possible in nature-protected areas. As an alternative, the application of passive seismic techniques in such areas can be proposed. In our study, we show results of passive seismic interferometry application for mapping the uppermost crust in the area of active mineral exploration in northern Finland. We utilize continuous seismic data acquired by the Sercel Unite wireless multichannel recording system along several profiles during XSoDEx (eXperiment of SOdankylä Deep Exploration) multidisciplinary geophysical project. The objective of XSoDEx was to obtain a structural image of the upper crust in the Sodankylä area of northern Finland in order to achieve a better understanding of the mineral system at depth. The key experiment of the project was a high-resolution seismic reflection experiment. In addition, continuous passive seismic data were acquired in parallel with reflection seismic data acquisition. Due to this, the length of passive data suitable for noise cross-correlation was limited from several hours to a couple of days. Analysis of the passive data demonstrated that dominating sources of ambient noise are non-stationary and have different origins across the XSoDEx study area. As the long data registration period and isotropic azimuthal distribution of noise sources are two major conditions for empirical Green function (EGF) extraction under the diffuse field approximation assumption, it was not possible to apply the conventional techniques of passive seismic interferometry. To find the way to obtain EGFs, we used numerical modelling in order to investigate properties of seismic noise originating from sources with different characteristics and propagating inside synthetic heterogeneous Earth models representing real geological conditions in the XSoDEx study area. The modelling demonstrated that scattering of ballistic waves on irregular shape heterogeneities, such as massive sulfides or mafic intrusions, could produce a diffused wavefield composed mainly of scattered surface waves. In our study, we show that this scattered wavefield can be used to retrieve reliable EGFs from short-term and non-stationary data using special techniques. One of the possible solutions is application of “signal-to-noise ratio stacking” (SNRS). The EGFs calculated for the XSoDEx profiles were inverted, in order to obtain S-wave velocity models down to the depth of 300 m. The obtained velocity models agree well with geological data and complement the results of reflection seismic data interpretation.

Passive seismic interferometry in XSoDEx experiment in northern Finland

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Kozlovskaya ◽  
Nikita Afonin ◽  
Jari Karjalainen ◽  
Suvi Heinonen ◽  
Stefan Buske
Keyword(s):  
Seismic Data ◽  
Seismic Exploration ◽  
Theoretical Modelling ◽  
Seismic Interferometry ◽  
Upper Crust ◽  
S Wave ◽  
Good Opportunity ◽  
Controlled Source ◽  
Velocity Models ◽  
Passive Seismic

<p>There is the problem that application of controlled-source seismic exploration is not always possible in nature protected areas. As an alternative, application of passive seismic techniques in such areas can be proposed. In our study we show results of application of passive seismic interferometry for mapping the uppermost crust in the area of active mineral exploration in northern Finland using the data recorded during XSoDEx (eXperiment of SOdankylä Deep Exploration) project. The objectives of the project were to obtain a structural image of the upper crust in the Sodankylä area of Northern Finland in order to achieve a better understanding of the mineral system at depth. Within XSoDEx, a combined seismic reflection and refraction survey was organised by Geological Survey of Finland, University of Oulu, Finland (Oulu Mining School and Sodankylä Geophysical Observatory) and TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany. The vibrotrack of TU BAF was used as a source. The experiment was performed during July and August 2017 resulting in an approximately 80 km long seismic profile line. The seismic refraction data were simultaneously recorded by 60 vertical- and 40 three-component wireless autonomous receivers along an extended line around the reflection spread with maximum offsets of around 10 km. During night time, the receivers were recording passive seismic data. Thus the XSoDEx experiment provided a good opportunity to verify results of passive seismic interferometry with controlled-source seismic data, to identify limitations of this technique in areas of generally low level of high-frequency anthropogenic noise and to propose possible improvements of known techniques. Analysis of the data and theoretical modelling demonstrated that the dominating sources of ambient noise are non-stationary and have different origin in different parts of XSoDEx lines. In addition, the length of passive data for cross-correlation was limited to several hours and the long data recording period is usually considered as one of the main conditions for seismic interferometry applications. In order to obtain reliable Empirical Green Functions (EGF) from such short-term and non-stationary data, we applied a special technique (signal-to-noise ratio stacking). The calculated EGFs were inverted in order to obtain S-wave velocity models along XSodEx lines down to a depth of several hundreds metres. The obtained results are S-wave seismic velocity models of the upper crust in Northern Finland that agree well with geological data and complement the results of reflection seismic data interpretation.</p>

Imaging passive seismic data

Geophysics ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 71 (4) ◽  
pp. SI177-SI187 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brad Artman
Keyword(s):  
Water Table ◽  
Seismic Data ◽  
Survey Design ◽  
Signal To Noise Ratio ◽  
Multiple Sources ◽  
Depth Migration ◽  
Reflection Seismic ◽  
Ambient Sound ◽  
Passive Seismic ◽  
Passive Data

Imaging passive seismic data is the process of synthesizing the wealth of subsurface information available from reflection seismic experiments by recording ambient sound using an array of geophones distributed at the surface. Crosscorrelating the traces of such a passive experiment can synthesize data that are identical to actively collected reflection seismic data. With a correlation-based imaging condition, wave-equation shot-profile depth migration can use raw transmission wavefields as input for producing a subsurface image. Migration is even more important for passively acquired data than for active data because with passive data, the source wavefields are likely to be weak compared with background and instrument noise — a condition that leads to a low signal-to-noise ratio. Fourier analysis of correlating long field records shows that aliasing of the wavefields from distinct shots is unavoidable. Although this reduces the order of computations for correlation by the length of the original trace, the aliasing produces an output volume that may not be substantially more useful than the raw data because of the introduction of crosstalk between multiple sources. Direct migration of raw field data still can produce an accurate image, even when the transmission wavefields from individual sources are not separated. To illustrate direct migration, I use images from a shallow passive seismic investigation targeting a buried hollow pipe and the water-table reflection. These images show a strong anomaly at the 1-m depth of the pipe and faint events that could be the water table at a depth of around [Formula: see text]. The images are not clear enough to be irrefutable. I identify deficiencies in survey design and execution to aid future efforts.

Slant f-k transform of multichannel seismic surface wave data

Geophysics ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 84 (1) ◽  
pp. A19-A24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aleksander S. Serdyukov ◽  
Aleksander V. Yablokov ◽  
Anton A. Duchkov ◽  
Anton A. Azarov ◽  
Valery D. Baranov
Keyword(s):  
Surface Wave ◽  
Seismic Data ◽  
Signal To Noise Ratio ◽  
Velocity Estimation ◽  
Seismic Exploration ◽  
Spectral Processing ◽  
Near Surface ◽  
Frequency Time Representation ◽  
Time Representation ◽  
S Transform

We have addressed the problem of estimating surface-wave phase velocities through the spectral processing of seismic data. This is the key step of the well-known near-surface seismic exploration method, called multichannel analysis of surface waves. To increase the accuracy and ensure the unambiguity of the selection of dispersion curves, we have developed a new version of the frequency-wavenumber ([Formula: see text]-[Formula: see text]) transform based on the S-transform. We obtain the frequency-time representation of seismic data. We analyze the obtained S-transform frequency-time representation in a slant-stacking manner but use a spatial Fourier transform instead of amplitude stacking. Finally, we build the [Formula: see text]-[Formula: see text] image by analyzing the spatial spectra for different steering values of the surface-wave group velocities. The time localization of the surface-wave packet at each frequency increases the signal-to-noise ratio because of an exclusion of noise in other time steps (which does not fall in the effective width of the corresponding wavelet). The new [Formula: see text]-[Formula: see text] transform, i.e., the slant [Formula: see text]-[Formula: see text] (SFK) transform, renders a better spectral analysis than the conventional [Formula: see text]-[Formula: see text] transform and yields more accurate phase-velocity estimation, which is critical for the surface-wave analysis. The advantages of the SFK transform have been confirmed by synthetic- and field-data processing.

scholarly journals Passive seismic event estimation using multiscattering waveform inversion

Geophysics ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 84 (3) ◽  
pp. KS59-KS69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chao Song ◽  
Zedong Wu ◽  
Tariq Alkhalifah
Keyword(s):  
Seismic Data ◽  
Waveform Inversion ◽  
Velocity Model ◽  
Source Image ◽  
Time Inversion ◽  
Multiple Sources ◽  
Origin Time ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Velocity Models ◽  
Passive Seismic

Passive seismic monitoring has become an effective method to understand underground processes. Time-reversal-based methods are often used to locate passive seismic events directly. However, these kinds of methods are strongly dependent on the accuracy of the velocity model. Full-waveform inversion (FWI) has been used on passive seismic data to invert the velocity model and source image, simultaneously. However, waveform inversion of passive seismic data uses mainly the transmission energy, which results in poor illumination and low resolution. We developed a waveform inversion using multiscattered energy for passive seismic to extract more information from the data than conventional FWI. Using transmission wavepath information from single- and double-scattering, computed from a predicted scatterer field acting as secondary sources, our method provides better illumination of the velocity model than conventional FWI. Using a new objective function, we optimized the source image and velocity model, including multiscattered energy, simultaneously. Because we conducted our method in the frequency domain with a complex source function including spatial and wavelet information, we mitigate the uncertainties of the source wavelet and source origin time. Inversion results from the Marmousi model indicate that by taking advantage of multiscattered energy and starting from a reasonably acceptable frequency (a single source at 3 Hz and multiple sources at 5 Hz), our method yields better inverted velocity models and source images compared with conventional FWI.

Research on Seismic Exploration Techniques in Complex Lithologic Oil Filed Exploration

2013 ◽  
Vol 748 ◽  
pp. 1099-1103
Author(s):  
Xiao Bo Peng
Keyword(s):  
Data Processing ◽  
Seismic Data ◽  
Advanced Technology ◽  
Seismic Exploration ◽  
Seismic Data Processing ◽  
Main Layer ◽  
Geological Characteristics ◽  
Analysis Process ◽  
Data Resolution ◽  
Geological Conditions

The current understanding of complex lithology reservoirs is not enough, and it’s impossible to figure out all the problems during the exploration stage, we need to combine exploration with development, and gradually develop the knowledge on complex geological conditions in the rolling development, effectively combine exploration and development. This paper based on previous studies and goes further to research from all aspects by applying the seismic data of oil region and the adjacent blocks. The purpose is to describe in detail on geological characteristics and reservoir characteristics. Considering seismic data processing, we focus on the main layer data processing to ensure the information under the premise of efforts to improve the data resolution. Finally, we discuss the analysis process of seismic data; the structural interpretation seeks to start on the basis of traps study, for small faults and minor structural analysis, advanced technology were applied to describe the reservoir.

scholarly journals Specificity of the seismic material obtained in complex seismo geological conditions (swamp zone)

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
А.А. Левицкий ◽  
А.В. Рудаков ◽  
М.С. Левицкая
Keyword(s):  
Negative Impact ◽  
Seismic Source ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Seismic Exploration ◽  
Near Surface ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Geological Conditions ◽  
Seismic Recording ◽  
Surface Section

Основная цель работы – описание новых технических и методологических средств, используемых АО «Южморгеология» при проведении полевых сейсморазведочных работ МОГТ 3D в лиманно-плавневых зонах Славянского района Краснодарского края в 2014-2015 гг. Представлены основные результаты опытных работ, обоснован выбор параметров съемки и их влияние на качество сейсмической записи: заглубление пневмоисточников BOLT 2200LL-BHS, количество накоплений возбуждения и необходимая глубина погружения датчиков регистраторов. В качестве датчиков регистраторов использовались маршфоны «СВГ-6», которые задавливались с помощью металлического шеста с креплением на конце на глубину 1,0–2,5 м до достижения уверенного контакта с твердой поверхностью (плотный грунт, глинистая подошва), снижая негативное влияние шумов (микросейсм) от корневой системы камышей (рис. 2А, В). Группирование «СВГ-6» шестью последовательно соединенными геофонами (GS-20DX) увеличило чувствительность датчика к слабым сигналам, возбуждаемым, в слабо консолидированной толще, а его прочная конструкция и металлическая проушина, позволила извлекать маршфон из скважины, полностью заполненной водой и шламом.  Приведены основные свойства верхней части разреза (ВЧР) исследуемой площади по данным бурения с кратким описанием литологической характеристика разреза до глубины 10 м. Показаны сейсмограммы, полученные на одном участке в разных сейсмогеологических условиях. Выявлена зависимость распределения значений среднеквадратичных амплитуд и доминантных частот по площади от поверхностных условий возбуждения и приема колебаний. Данная зависимость также прослеживается на предварительных временных разрезах. Были проанализированы основные факторы, влияющие на качество получаемого сейсмического материала. На основе проведенного исследования авторами обосновывается необходимость использования комплексного подхода к анализу качества сейсмических данных при работах в сложных сейсмогеологических условиях. В качестве вывода приведены основные рекомендации к проведению сейсморазведочных работ в лиманно-плавневых зонах. The main objective of the work is the description of new technical and methodological tools used by Yuzhmorgeologiya JSC when conducting CDP 3D field seismic surveys in the estuaries of the Slavyansk district of the Krasnodar Region in 2014-2015. The main results of the experimental work are presented; the choice of survey parameters and their impact on the quality of the seismic recording is validated: digging-in of the seismic source points BOLT 2200LL-BHS, the number of excitation accumulations and the required depth of recorder sensors. Geophones “SVG-6” were used as sensors of the recorders, which were crushed with a metal pole with a fastening at the end to a depth of 1.0–2.5 m until steady contact with a solid surface (dense soil, clay base) was achieved, reducing the negative impact noise (microseism) from the root system of reeds (Fig. 2A, B). Grouping the SVG-6 with six consecutive geophones (GS-20DX) increased the sensitivity of the equipment to weak signals being excited in a weakly consolidated layer, and its robust design and metal eye, made it possible to extract the geophone from a well completely filled with water and sludge. The basic properties of the upper part of the section (near-surface section) of the studied area are given according to the drilling data with a brief description of the lithological characteristics of the section to a depth of 10 m. Seismograms obtained at one site in different seismic and geological conditions are shown. The dependence of the distribution of values of root-mean-square amplitudes and dominant frequencies over the area on the surface conditions of excitation and reception of vibrations is revealed. This dependence is also observed in the preliminary time sections. The main factors affecting the quality of the obtained seismic material were analyzed. Based on the present study, the authors validate the need for the use of an integrated approach to analyzing the quality of seismic data when working under complex seismic and geological conditions. As a conclusion, the main recommendations for seismic exploration in the estuaries are presented.

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