Multicomponent seismic polarization analysis
Multicomponent seismic polarization analysis
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多分量地震极化分析
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1998
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R. Stewart
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S. Guevara;R. Stewart
In the 3-C seismic method, the plant orientation and polarity of geophones should be previously known to provide correct amplitude information. In principle the linear polarization of waves can be used to determine the direction of the geophones and in that way field errors in location can be corrected. In this work, polarization information of two 3-C data set is analyzed with that purpose. The data are from a 3C-3D geophone directivity experiment and from a 3C-2D high-resolution data set. Two parameters were used to analyze polarization: the azimuth of horizontal receivers and the linearity. In the 3-D case, a first break window was used. In the 2-D case, first breaks and a second event were analyzed. For the first breaks, a relationship was found between polarization and direction source-to-receiver, but it is affected by many factors and the directional information cannot be inferred accurately from it. Effects like difference in response with the direction of the geophone were observed. The second event analyzed for the 2-D data, interpreted as an S refraction, presents much more definite linear polarization. INTRODUCTION The displacement of particles effected by elastic waves shows a preferred direction of polarization, depending on the seismic event that is causing the particle motion and on the elastic properties of the medium. This fact has been shown both theoretically and in many experiments. Polarization is related to shot-to-receiver orientation and to elastic properties of the medium. Much effort has been devoted to take advantage of the polarization properties of waves. Some methods have been used successfully, mainly in earthquake seismology and in VSP. However in surface seismic exploration it is not so easily applied. This has been attributed to the heterogeneity of the near surface layers (Gal’perin, 1977) and likely the coupling and response of the 3-C geophone. A drawback of polarization analysis is that it is difficult to discriminate because the seismic events usually are mixed. Polarization of seismic events is not an issue in the conventional seismic method, where only vertical ground motion is measured, but should be taken in account in multicomponent seismic method. In 3C-3D seismic processing geophone information should be rotated to the source-receiver direction to have a first polarization correction. Another rotation can be carried out to get information about anisotropy from the angles of the “natural coordinates”, which are related to birefringence properties (Cary, 1994). Figure 1 illustrates the polarization characteristics in multicomponent 2-D and 3-D seismic acquisition. In 2-D, the components are oriented along the line defined by source and receiver. In 3-D, sources can be located at any direction with respect to receivers and so the energy can come from any direction.