scholarly journals Seismic monitoring of Campi Flegrei and Vesuvius by stand-alone instruments

2015 ◽  
Vol 58 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mario La Rocca ◽  
Danilo Galluzzo

<p>A seismic network of more than 20 broad band stations and two arrays of 10 short period stations each, all working in local acquisition mode, are used to improve the seismic monitoring of Campi Flegrei and Vesuvius for research purposes. Data provided by stand-alone instruments are characterized by high quality and very continuous data streams, therefore they are appropriate to detect and analyze any seismic signals possibly related with the volcanic activity. Array data are particularly useful to discover and analyze seismic events characterized by low amplitude, low signal to noise ratio and emergent onset, but whose signals are more coherent among the array stations than the background noise. Since the background seismic signal is very high at both volcanoes, particularly at Campi Flegrei, seismic arrays and dense station networks are necessary to discriminate volcanic events from the many transient signals produced by artificial sources. In Campi Flegrei area the analysis with array methods of data recorded by ARF array permitted the discovery of low amplitude volcanic tremor of hydrothermal origin occurred in January 2015, a seismic signal never observed before in the area. At Mt. Vesuvius the analysis of VAS array data has shown the occasional occurrence of short bursts of low amplitude volcanic tremor. Small low-frequency earthquakes have also been revealed in the two volcanic areas.</p>

Author(s):  
Patrick Stahl ◽  
G. Nakhaie Jazar

Non-smooth piecewise functional isolators are smart passive vibration isolators that can provide effective isolation for high frequency/low amplitude excitation by introducing a soft primary suspension, and by preventing a high relative displacement in low frequency/high amplitude excitation by introducing a relatively damped secondary suspension. In this investigation a linear secondary suspension is attached to a nonlinear primary suspension. The primary is assumed to be nonlinear to model the inherent nonlinearities involved in real suspensions. However, the secondary suspension comes into action only during a short period of time, and in mall domain around resonance. Therefore, a linear assumption for the secondary suspension is reasonable. The dynamic behavior of the system subject to a harmonic base excitation has been analyzed utilizing the analytic results derived by applying the averaging method. The analytic results match very well in the transition between the two suspensions. A sensitivity analysis has shown the effect of varying dynamic parameters in the steady state behavior of the system.


1996 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Alparone ◽  
S. Gresta

A short period seismic array setting at Mt. Etna symmetrically in regard to the fracture of the 1991-1993 eruption allowed an analysis of low frequency events which occurred in the first phase of the mentioned eruption. We recorded about 50 events, 19 of them belong to a family. They show very low amplitude values and spectral peaks ranging 0.5-4.5 Hz. The evidence of this family of events shows how the process driving the dynamics of the fluid in the volcano is often the same.


2018 ◽  
pp. 73-78
Author(s):  
Yu. V. Morozov ◽  
M. A. Rajfeld ◽  
A. A. Spektor

The paper proposes the model of a person seismic signal with noise for the investigation of passive seismic location system characteristics. The known models based on Gabor and Berlage pulses have been analyzed. These models are not able wholly to consider statistical properties of seismic signals. The proposed model is based on almost cyclic character of seismic signals, Gauss character of fluctuations inside a pulse, random amplitude change from pulse to pulse and relatively small fluctuation of separate pulses positions. The simulation procedure consists of passing the white noise through a linear generating filter with characteristics formed by real steps of a person, and the primary pulse sequence modulation by Gauss functions. The model permits to control the signal-to-noise ratio after its reduction to unity and to vary pulse shifts with respect to person steps irregularity. It has been shown that the model of a person seismic signal with noise agrees with experimental data.


2002 ◽  
Vol 199 ◽  
pp. 474-483
Author(s):  
Namir E. Kassim ◽  
T. Joseph W. Lazio ◽  
William C. Erickson ◽  
Patrick C. Crane ◽  
R. A. Perley ◽  
...  

Decametric wavelength imaging has been largely neglected in the quest for higher angular resolution because ionospheric structure limited interferometric imaging to short (< 5 km) baselines. The long wavelength (LW, 2—20 m or 15—150 MHz) portion of the electromagnetic spectrum thus remains poorly explored. The NRL-NRAO 74 MHz Very Large Array has demonstrated that self-calibration techniques can remove ionospheric distortions over arbitrarily long baselines. This has inspired the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR)—-a fully electronic, broad-band (15—150 MHz)antenna array which will provide an improvement of 2—3 orders of magnitude in resolution and sensitivity over the state of the art.


2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (S284) ◽  
pp. 411-413 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Sanchez ◽  
Berrie Giebels ◽  
Pascal Fortin ◽  

AbstractMatching the broad-band emission of active galaxies with the predictions of theoretical models can be used to derive constraints on the properties of the emitting region and to probe the physical processes involved. AP Librae is the third low frequency peaked BL Lac (LBL) detected at very high energy (VHE, E>100GeV) by an Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescope; most VHE BL Lacs (34 out of 39) belong to the high-frequency and intermediate-frequency BL Lac classes (HBL and IBL). LBL objects tend to have a higher luminosity with lower peak frequencies than HBLs or IBLs. The characterization of their time-averaged spectral energy distribution is challenging for emission models such as synchrotron self-Compton (SSC) models.


Geophysics ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-54
Author(s):  
Milad Bader ◽  
Robert G. Clapp ◽  
Biondo Biondi

Low-frequency data below 5 Hz are essential to the convergence of full-waveform inversion towards a useful solution. They help build the velocity model low wavenumbers and reduce the risk of cycle-skipping. In marine environments, low-frequency data are characterized by a low signal-to-noise ratio and can lead to erroneous models when inverted, especially if the noise contains coherent components. Often field data are high-pass filtered before any processing step, sacrificing weak but essential signal for full-waveform inversion. We propose to denoise the low-frequency data using prediction-error filters that we estimate from a high-frequency component with a high signal-to-noise ratio. The constructed filter captures the multi-dimensional spectrum of the high-frequency signal. We expand the filter's axes in the time-space domain to compress its spectrum towards the low frequencies and wavenumbers. The expanded filter becomes a predictor of the target low-frequency signal, and we incorporate it in a minimization scheme to attenuate noise. To account for data non-stationarity while retaining the simplicity of stationary filters, we divide the data into non-overlapping patches and linearly interpolate stationary filters at each data sample. We apply our method to synthetic stationary and non-stationary data, and we show it improves the full-waveform inversion results initialized at 2.5 Hz using the Marmousi model. We also demonstrate that the denoising attenuates non-stationary shear energy recorded by the vertical component of ocean-bottom nodes.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Klaasen ◽  
Patrick Paitz ◽  
Jan Dettmer ◽  
Andreas Fichtner

&lt;p&gt;We present one of the first applications of Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) in a volcanic environment. The goals are twofold: First, we want to examine the feasibility of DAS in such a remote and extreme environment, and second, we search for active volcanic signals of Mount Meager in British Columbia (Canada).&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Mount Meager massif is an active volcanic complex that is estimated to have the largest geothermal potential in Canada and caused its largest recorded landslide in 2010. We installed a 3-km long fibre-optic cable at 2000 m elevation that crosses the ridge of Mount Meager and traverses the uppermost part of a glacier, yielding continuous measurements from 19 September to 17 October 2019.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We identify ~30 low-frequency (0.01-1 Hz) and 3000 high-frequency (5-45 Hz) events. The low-frequency events are not correlated with microseismic ocean or atmospheric noise sources and volcanic tremor remains a plausible origin. The frequency-power distribution of the high-frequency events indicates a natural origin, and beamforming on these events reveals distinct event clusters, predominantly in the direction of the main peaks of the volcanic complex. Numerical examples show that we can apply conventional beamforming to the data, and that the results are improved by taking the signal-to-noise ratio of individual channels into account.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The increased data quantity of DAS can outweigh the limitations due to the lower quality of individual channels in these hazardous and remote environments. We conclude that DAS is a promising tool in this setting that warrants further development.&lt;/p&gt;


1981 ◽  
Vol 71 (4) ◽  
pp. 1351-1360
Author(s):  
Tom Goforth ◽  
Eugene Herrin

abstract An automatic seismic signal detection algorithm based on the Walsh transform has been developed for short-period data sampled at 20 samples/sec. Since the amplitude of Walsh function is either +1 or −1, the Walsh transform can be accomplished in a computer with a series of shifts and fixed-point additions. The savings in computation time makes it possible to compute the Walsh transform and to perform prewhitening and band-pass filtering in the Walsh domain with a microcomputer for use in real-time signal detection. The algorithm was initially programmed in FORTRAN on a Raytheon Data Systems 500 minicomputer. Tests utilizing seismic data recorded in Dallas, Albuquerque, and Norway indicate that the algorithm has a detection capability comparable to a human analyst. Programming of the detection algorithm in machine language on a Z80 microprocessor-based computer has been accomplished; run time on the microcomputer is approximately 110 real time. The detection capability of the Z80 version of the algorithm is not degraded relative to the FORTRAN version.


2021 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Hongguang Pan ◽  
Fan Wen ◽  
Xiangdong Huang ◽  
Xinyu Lei ◽  
Xiaoling Yang

In the field of super-resolution image reconstruction, as a learning-based method, deep plug-and-play super-resolution (DPSR) algorithm can be used to find the blur kernel by using the existing blind deblurring methods. However, DPSR is not flexible enough in processing images with high- and low-frequency information. Considering a channel attention mechanism can distinguish low-frequency information and features in low-resolution images, in this paper, we firstly introduce this mechanism and design a new residual channel attention networks (RCAN); then the RCAN is adopted to replace deep feature extraction part in DPSR to achieve the adaptive adjustment of channel characteristics. Through four test experiments based on Set5, Set14, Urban100 and BSD100 datasets, we find that, under different blur kernels and different scale factors, the average peak signal to noise ratio (PSNR) and structural similarity (SSIM) values of our proposed method increase by 0.31dB and 0.55%, respectively; under different noise levels, the average PSNR and SSIM values increase by 0.26dB and 0.51%, respectively.


Author(s):  
Yusuke Arashida ◽  
Atsushi Taninaka ◽  
Takayuki Ochiai ◽  
Hiroyuki Mogi ◽  
Shoji YOSHIDA ◽  
...  

Abstract We have developed a multiplex Coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) microscope effective for low-wavenumber measurement by combining a high-repetition supercontinuum light source of 1064 nm and an infrared high-sensitivity InGaAs diode array. This system could observe the low-wavenumber region down to 55 cm-1 with high sensitivity. In addition, using spectrum shaping and spectrum modulation techniques, we simultaneously realized a wide bandwidth (<1800 cm-1), high wavenumber resolution (9 cm-1), high efficiency, and increasing signal to noise ratio by reducing the effect of the background shape in low-wavenumber region. Spatial variation of a sulfur crystal phase transition with metastable states was visualized.


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