Testing the ability of surface arrays to monitor microseismic activity

Geophysical Prospecting

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 821-830

  Chambers, Kit ^a,c   Kendall, J Michael ^a   Brandsberg Dahl, Sverre ^b,d   Rueda, Jose ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b BP AMERICA INC   (United States)

^c Reservoir RockTalk   (France)

^d PGS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARRAY GEOMETRIES; COHERENT NOISE; DEFOCUS; DETECTABILITY; DOWNHOLES; IMAGE EVENTS; IMAGING METHOD; MICROSEISMIC EVENTS; MICROSEISMIC MONITORING; POINT SOURCES; PRE-PROCESSED DATA; PRESTACK; PRIMARY EFFECTS; PROCESSING METHOD; RADIATION PATTERNS; SEISMIC MONITORING; SEISMIC SOURCE; SOURCE IMAGES; SOURCE POSITION; SURFACE ARRAY; SURFACE SENSORS; SYNTHETIC SIGNALS; TRAVEL TIME;

ABILITY TESTING; LOCATION; SEISMOLOGY; SENSORS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SURFACE TESTING;

SURFACE STRUCTURE;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ARRAY; ARRIVAL TIME; DETECTION METHOD; IMAGING METHOD; MONITORING; PRESTACK MIGRATION; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC MIGRATION; SEISMIC NOISE; SEISMICITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; SOURCE PARAMETERS; TESTING METHOD; TRAVEL TIME;

EID: 77955743696     PISSN: 00168025     EISSN: 13652478     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2478.2010.00893.x     Document Type: Article

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