Date of Award
2016
Document Type
Open Access Master's Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Science in Geological Engineering (MS)
Administrative Home Department
Department of Geological and Mining Engineering and Sciences
Advisor 1
Wayne D. Pennington
Advisor 2
Roohollah Askari
Committee Member 1
Roger M. Turpening
Abstract
Passive seismic interferometry (SI) is an increasingly popular seismic method due to its cost-efficient advantage because it does not need an active source. Techniques in using SI to retrieve surface waves are relatively well established, but using SI to retrieve body waves is still under development by many authors. These geophysicists have proved that many factors, such as average duration of the natural sources, the number of natural sources that occurred during recording time, source distribution, etc., influence the quality of body waves retrieved. In this research, I focus on how to make use of the attenuation property of weathered layers to weaken the negative impact of surface noise. First, I model the negative effects of surface noise. Then, I test the effect of burying the receivers in order to improve the retrieved body waves. Finally, I discuss some solutions for removing multiples reflected from free surface.
Recommended Citation
Wu, Boming, "INFLUENCE OF THE WEATHERED LAYER ON RETRIEVING BODY WAVE USING PASSIVE SIESMIC INTERFEROMETRY", Open Access Master's Thesis, Michigan Technological University, 2016.