Tracking groundwater variations via 4-dimensional seismic imaging

该项目旨在开发一种先进的地震框架，以感知与大自流盆地地下地下水变化相关的微妙地下变化。地下水储存受到气候和人为强迫的影响，但现代监测工具不足以捕捉其在时间和空间上的详细反应。利用新技术和广泛的地震记录，该项目希望以前所未有的分辨率生成整个盆地的延时图像，以揭示系统的动态演变和静态盆地模型，以帮助解释。潜在的好处包括改进地下水跟踪的地球物理技术和加强对未来地下水管理的科学理解。

This project aims to develop an advanced seismic framework to sense subtle subsurface changes related to groundwater variations beneath the Great Artesian Basin. Groundwater storage is subject to climatic and anthropogenic forcing, but modern monitoring tools are not sufficient to capture its detailed response in both time and space. Using novel techniques and extensive seismic recordings, this project expects to generate time-lapse images across the basin in unprecedented resolution to reveal the system's dynamic evolution and a static basin model to aid the interpretation. Potential benefits include improved geophysical techniques for groundwater tracking and enhanced scientific understandings to underpin future groundwater management.