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Development of body-wave seismic interferometry
imaging for mineral exploration
Michal Chamarczuk, Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute
of Geophysics
Month and year defended: September 2021
https://www.igf.edu.pl/download.php?id=2494
We propose to use seismic interferometry (SI) as a cost-ef-
fective method to support mineral exploration at a mining-
camp scale. This thesis reports theory and applications of
four novel methods/methodologies that address: (i) detection
of body-wave events in the continuous recordings, (ii) clas-
DOI:10.1190/geo2021-1006-geodis.1
sification of ambient-noise (AN) recordings, (iii) selection of
the optimal SI processing sequence and initial target delin-
eation, and (iv) objective method for selection of passive data
contributing constructively to the reflection retrieval. We use
data from two passive seismic experiments acquired at the
Kylylahti mine in Finland (i-iii), and in the Pilbara region
of Western Australia (iv).
To obtain body-wave events required for passive imaging,
we investigate the feasibility of an automatic illumination-
diagnosis method and a machine-learning (ML) approach
for binary detection of body-wave events in seismic AN
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recorded by large-N receiver arrays. For this purpose, we
develop a two-step wavefield evaluation and event detection
method, which is an extension of an illumination-diagnosis
method introduced previously for crossing lines to 3D
seismic surveys with noncrossing lines.
Next, to provide a more thorough description of AN record-
ings, and identify more data that could be useful for imaging,
we present a hybrid-approach methodology for unsupervised
clustering of AN events recorded by a large-N array. The
methodology allows the detection of multiple event classes and
selectively using the events for, e.g., reflected body-wave
imaging or surface-wave tomography with SI techniques. Our
hybrid approach combines array-processing techniques that
provide spatiotemporal characterization of continuous AN
data and ML techniques that rely on the array-processing
outputs.
After developing generic methods for automatic characteriza-
tion of every recorded noise panel, we introduce a 2D ANSI
processing workflow for reconnaissance imaging and as an
evaluation tool for the future more detailed seismic acquisition
(either passive or active) for data sets acquired in an active-
mine environment.
Finally, we design a curvelet-based evaluation for detection
of virtual-source gathers with reflection content and use this
approach to assess the imaging potential of different AN re-
cordings. Combining all tools described in this thesis allows
to form a complete processing workflow that takes raw AN
recordings as input, and gives reflection images as output.
Adviser: Michal Malinowski and Deyan Draganov