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A Virtual Experiment to Quantify Gains in Explosion Monitoring Techniques

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We describe a comprehensive, virtual experiment that was designed and executed by the United States National Laboratories to quantify the cumulative impact of scientific and engineering advances on core, explosion monitoring methods and algorithms. This experiment exploited waveform (seismic, infrasound, and electromagnetic) and synthetic radionuclide signatures sourced by real and simulated events within and near the Nevada National Security Site over multiple time periods, which were recorded by multi-modal sensors. This experiment processed these data with an event processing pipeline that is notionally representative of monitoring operations in two stages: an initial stage to establish a baseline monitoring performance, and a second stage to measure gains or losses in monitoring performance through execution of new methods and algorithms, relative to that baseline. Other phases of the experiment tested the ability of the monitoring community to containerize disparate algorithms that populate this pipeline and thereby establish the remaining challenges of orchestrating a virtual explosion monitoring architecture. This delivery describes key phases of this experiment during its execution phases from October 2022 through February of 2024.

Session: Network Seismology: Recent Developments, Challenges and Lessons Learned - III

Type: Oral

Date: 4/15/2025

Presentation Time: 02:15 PM (local time)

Presenting Author: Joshua

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