Nature Communications (Dec 2019)

Distributed sensing of microseisms and teleseisms with submarine dark fibers

  • Ethan F. Williams,
  • María R. Fernández-Ruiz,
  • Regina Magalhaes,
  • Roel Vanthillo,
  • Zhongwen Zhan,
  • Miguel González-Herráez,
  • Hugo F. Martins

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13262-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) technology in geophysics is commonly known for applications such as active source seismic profiling in boreholes. Here, the authors convert the fiber optics cable into an ocean bottom seismic recording array with thousands of single component channels.