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Passive Seismic Interferometry for Subsurface Imaging

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Ambient noise; Body waves; Cross-correlation; Green’s function retrieval; Reflection imaging; Reflections; Seismic interferometry; Teleseismic arrivals

Introduction

Seismic interferometry is a method that allows the retrieval of the seismic response at one receiver from a virtual source at the position of another receiver. The method was first proposed in the seismic exploration community by Claerbout (1968) for a horizontally layered subsurface. The author showed that by autocorrelating the transmission response recorded at a receiver at the Earth’s surface from noise sources in the subsurface, one would retrieve the reflection response at this receiver from a virtual source also at that location. In the following decades, the applications of this idea were rare (Scherbaum 1987; Duvall et al. 1993; Daneshvar et al. 1995). But from the turn of the century, the fortunes changed and the method rapidly gained in popularity. This happened in the seismological community, due to...

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  1. Department of Geoscience and Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Stevinweg 1, 2628 CN, Delft, The Netherlands

    Deyan Draganov

  2. Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Elmer Ruigrok

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Draganov, D., Ruigrok, E. (2015). Passive Seismic Interferometry for Subsurface Imaging. In: Beer, M., Kougioumtzoglou, I., Patelli, E., Au, IK. (eds) Encyclopedia of Earthquake Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36197-5_378-1

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