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Utilizing Advanced Acoustic Modeling Techniques to Inform Experimental Field Deployments

Session: Infrasound and the Seismo-Acoustic Wavefield [Poster]

Type: Poster

Date: 4/20/2021

Presentation Time: 04:15 PM Pacific

Description: 

Acoustic ray-tracing methodologies that predict direct signals arrivals from a geographic source of interest are often used as a first step for justifying seismoacoustic sensor deployments in the experimental planning phase. Results are typically presented as a series of predicted arrivals at a point in time and space and offer first order predictions of expected direct arrivals from source to receiver. Google Earth offers a complementary valuable tool for deployment planning by providing a high level overview of terrain, land ownership and accessibility; however in order to overlay results of interest Google Earth requires special formatted (KML) files, typically generated in ArcGIS or similar programs. We present a methodology for converting ray-tracing output to KML files for field planning purposes. This methodology offers the opportunity to produce experimental deployments that improve likelihoods of observing acoustic signals by applying data-driven decision making procedures.

SNL is managed and operated by NTESS under DOE NNSA contract DE-NA0003525

Presenting Author: Fransiska K. Dannemann Dugick

Student Presenter: Yes

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