Distributed Acoustic Sensing: Exploring the potential of unconventional fiber configurations

Over the last decade, Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) has gained increased attention as a cost-effective and practical ground motion monitoring technique, due to the unprecedented temporal and spatial sampling possibilities. Considering these inherent advantages, DAS-collected strain rate measurements can be beneficial as...

Cryoseismic Event Analysis on Distributed Strain Recordings Leveraging Statistical Learning Methods

In the summer of 2020, ETH researchers installed a 9 km long fiber-optic cable on the Rhonegletscher (Switzerland), covering the whole glacier extent from accumulation to ablation zone.<br/>The fiber was then interrogated with a DAS system, turning it into a distributed seismic antenna. The DAS system recorded continuously for one month on more...