Analysis of instrument self-noise and microseismic event detection using power spectral density estimates

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 197, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 1076-1089

  Vaezi, Y ^a   Van der Baan, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Downhole methods; Fourier analysis; Interferometry

Indexed keywords

FOURIER ANALYSIS; HYDRAULIC FRACTURING; INSTRUMENTS; INTERFEROMETRY; POWER SPECTRAL DENSITY;

BACKGROUND NOISE LEVELS; DOWNHOLE METHODS; EVENT DETECTION ALGORITHM; HYPOCENTRAL DISTANCE; MICROSEISMIC EVENTS; SEISMIC INTERFEROMETRIES; SUBSURFACE STRUCTURES; TIME-FREQUENCY REPRESENTATIONS;

SEISMOLOGY;

ALGORITHM; AMBIENT NOISE; EARTHQUAKE HYPOCENTER; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; FOURIER TRANSFORM; HYDRAULIC FRACTURE; INTERFEROMETRY; SEISMIC NOISE; SEISMICITY;

EID: 84898793732     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gji/ggu036     Document Type: Article

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