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Room: 208C

Date: 4/19/2023

Session Time: 8:00 AM to 11:45 AM (local time)

In the last decade, significant technological advances have been made in distributed sensing. This technology turns fiber-optic cables into arrays of sensors recording physical signals with an unprecedented spatio temporal resolution. In the Earth sciences, Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS, measuring seismic and acoustic waves), Distributed Temperature Sensing (DTS, measuring temperature), and Distributed Strain Sensing (DSS, measuring deformation) have been widely used to better understand and monitor the solid Earth, glaciers, rivers, oceans, ecosystems, and urban environments. We invite contributions on any recent development in the fields of application, instrumentation, and theory of distributed optical fiber geophysics. These may include, but are not limited to, theoretical and methodological aspects of fiber-optic sensing, comparison and analysis of DAS/DTS/DSS records with other types of seismological/geophysical measurements, potential combination of distributed sensing with conventional geophysical networks, applications for imaging and monitoring the solid Earth and the hydrosphere, detection and characterization of natural and anthropological signals, and algorithms/techniques to handle and process the large amounts of data recorded by DAS/DTS.

Conveners:

Brad Lipovsky, University of Washington (bpl7@ uw.edu)

Ettore Biondi, California Institute of Technology (ebiondi@caltech.edu)

Loïc Viens, Los Alamos National Laboratory (lviens@lanl.gov)

Xiaowei Chen, Texas A&M University (xiaowei.chen@tamu.edu)

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