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Parameterization of a Helical DAS Fibre Wound about an Arbitrarily Curved Cable Axis
- Publisher: European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers
- Source: Conference Proceedings, 79th EAGE Conference and Exhibition 2017, Jun 2017, Volume 2017, p.1 - 5
Abstract
Distributed Acoustic Sensing is a seismic acquisition technology with the promise to lower costs and increase coverage and density of sampling. Curved fibres (e.g., helical-wound) furthermore enable both a mitigation of the well-known broadside insensitivity issue and in principle the local measurement of vector displacement and/or tensor strain. We introduce a parameterization of a helical fibre wound about an arbitrarily curved cable axis, considering in particular the case of a helix wound about another helix, introducing a naming convention involving an “n-helix”. We illustrate the possible benefits of a fibre wound into a 2-helix with plots of tangents on the unit sphere. Within this model we generalize the broadside insensitivity relationship, by considering projections of P-wave strain onto the enumerated tangents of shaped fibre.