Monitoring the impact of COVID-19 on the travel behavior of train travelers in the Netherlands

Mobility patterns and transport systems have been heavily impacted due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Public transport is impacted heavily, as governments worldwide advised against using it. This paper presents the data collection effort initiated by NS (Dutch Railways) and Delft University of Technology to capture changes in travel behavior,...

The Impact of Vocal Communication and its Personalization on Intention to Use of Chatbots Using Behavioral Activation to Support Patients Experiencing Depression

The 21st century has seen a significant increase in the global prevalence of mental health problems, affecting almost a billion people. These conditions not only reduce the quality of life for individuals but also lead to stigmatization, discrimination, and social isolation. The COVID-19 pandemic has further exacerbated mental health issues,...

Seismic acquisition design based on full-wavefield migration

The ultimate goal in survey design is to obtain the acquisition parameters that enable acquiring the most affordable data that fulfills certain image quality requirements. We propose a method that allows optimization of the receiver geometry for a fixed source distribution. The former is parameterized with a receiver density function that...

Blended acquisition with temporally signatured/modulated and spatially dispersed source array

We introduce a blended-acquisition method: temporally signatured and/or modulated and spatially dispersed source array, namely S-/M-DSA. The former S-DSA has much less constraints in the encoding with operational flexibility, allowing non-uniform sampling and non-patterned shooting both in the space and time dimension. The latter M-DSA allows...

Optimum seismic acquisition geometry design with the help of artificial intelligence

Acquisition geometry design aims at finding the most affordable acquisition geometry that satisfies the objectives of the seismic survey. The parameters of an acquisition geometry can be specified in terms of the number of sources and detectors, their location, the blending parameters and the DSA (dispersed source array) parameters. In our...

3-D shallow-water seismic survey evaluation and design using the focal-beam method: a case study offshore Abu Dhabi

For 3-D shallow-water seismic surveys offshore Abu Dhabi, imaging the target reflectors requires high resolution. Characterization and monitoring of hydrocarbon reservoirs by seismic amplitude-versus-offset techniques demands high pre-stack amplitude fidelity. In this region, however, it still was not clear how the survey parameters should be...

Surface-wave separation and its impact on seismic survey design

Surface waves in seismic data are often dominant and mask primaries in land or shallow-water environments. Separating them from the primaries is of great importance either for removing them as noise for reservoir imaging and characterization, or for considering them as signal for near-surface characterization. However, their complex properties,...

Including secondary illumination in seismic acquisition design

A subsurface image obtained from seismic data is influenced by the acquisition geometry, as it contains an acquisition foot-print which can obscure the true reflection response of the subsurface. Hence, the acquisition geometry should be designed in such a way that it allows high-quality images and fulfils the criteria for reservoir...

Singular-value decomposition analysis of source illumination in seismic interferometry by multidimensional deconvolution

We have developed a method to analytically evaluate the relationship between the source-receiver configuration and the retrieved wavefield in seismic interferometry performed by multidimensional deconvolution (MDD). The MDD method retrieves the wavefield with the desired source-receiver configuration from the observed wavefield without source...

Fast multifrequency focal beam analysis for 3D seismic acquisition geometry

A method for the efficient computation of multifrequency focal beams for 3D seismic acquisition geometry analysis has been developed. By computing them for all the frequency components of seismic data, single-frequency focal beams can be extended to multifrequency focal beams. However, this straightforward method involves considerable computer...

Integrated approach to 3-D seismic acquisition geometry analysis: Emphasizing the influence of the inhomogeneous subsurface

The seismic reflection method for imaging of the earth's interior is an essential part of the exploration and exploitation of hydrocarbon resources. A seismic survey should be designed such that the acquired data leads to a sufficiently accurate subsurface image. The survey geometry analysis method presented in this thesis is based on the...