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Towards Discrimination of Elastic Wave Modes with Shaped DAS Fibre-optic Cables
- Publisher: European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers
- Source: Conference Proceedings, 80th EAGE Conference and Exhibition 2018, Jun 2018, Volume 2018, p.1 - 5
Abstract
Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) with fibre-optic technology is under development as a powerful and inexpensive form of seismic data acquisition. Shaped fibres (e.g., helical-wound) mitigate broadside insensitivity, and, in principle, enable multicomponent measurements; but quantification of both of these aspects requires a maximally inclusive geometry/response model. Such a model, once assembled, can be further put to use in enabling acquisition design, for instance in proposing specific fibre shapes which can distinguish between elastic wave modes. Several benchmark fibres, straight, helical-wound, and more complex, are exposed to simple body and surface waves, and the responses are examined. Patterns in these responses lead to proposed objective functions for determination of fibre shape parameters.