Systematic Recovery of Instrumental Timing Errors Using Interferometric Surface Waves Retrieved from Large N Seismic Arrays

Conference Paper (2021)
Author(s)

C. Weemstra (TU Delft - Applied Geophysics and Petrophysics)

J. de Laat (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies)

A. Verdel (Netherlands Organization for Applied Sciences)

Research Group
Applied Geophysics and Petrophysics
DOI related publication
https://doi.org/10.3997/2214-4609.202131054
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Publication Year
2021
Language
English
Research Group
Applied Geophysics and Petrophysics
Pages (from-to)
1-5

Abstract

Timing errors are a notorious problem in seismic data acquisition and processing. A technique is presented that allows such timing errors to be recovered in a systematic fashion. The methodology relies on virtual- source responses retrieved through the application of seismic interferometry (SI). In application to recordings of ambient seismic noise, SI involves temporal averaging of time-windowed crosscorrelation measurements. The retrieved interferometric responses are typically dominated by surface waves. Under favorable conditions, these interferometric responses therefore approach the surface-wave part of the medium's Green's function. Additionally, however, its time-reverse is often also retrieved. This implies time-symmetry of the time-averaged receiver-receiver crosscorrelations. In this study, this time-symmetry is exploited: by comparing the arrival time of the direct surface wave at positive time to the arrival time of the direct surface wave at negative time for a large a number of receiver- receiver pairs, relative timing errors can be determined in a weighted least-squared sense. The proposed methodology is validated using synthetic data. The results hold particular promise for large N seismic arrays.

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