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Area of Science:

  • Seismology and wave propagation analysis.
  • Array signal processing techniques.

Background:

  • Conventional beamforming uses phase-shifting and stacking of sensor data.
  • Alternative beamforming methods can utilize cross-correlations between sensor waveforms.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To derive and introduce a novel kernel for beamforming cross-correlated seismic data, termed cross-correlation beamforming (CCBF).
  • To evaluate the performance of CCBF in terms of resolution, aliasing, noise resilience, and flexibility compared to conventional beamforming.

Main Methods:

  • Derivation of a beamforming kernel for cross-correlated seismic data (CCBF).
  • Numerical simulations to assess CCBF's resolution, aliasing, and noise resilience.
  • Application of CCBF to synthetic and field data, including earthquake arrivals and ambient noise.
  • Investigation of CCBF's flexibility in removing receiver pairs and time-windowing cross-correlations.

Main Results:

  • CCBF demonstrates slightly improved resolution and aliasing characteristics over conventional beamforming.
  • CCBF shows greater resilience to non-coherent noise.
  • CCBF allows for the removal of individual receiver pairs to enhance mapping to the slowness domain.
  • CCBF effectively focuses energy into a central beam for both earthquake and ambient noise data.
  • Field data confirmed the numerical observations, highlighting CCBF's noise suppression and flexibility.

Conclusions:

  • Cross-correlation beamforming (CCBF) is a powerful technique for wave direction estimation.
  • CCBF offers significant advantages in noise suppression and adaptability compared to conventional methods.
  • The flexibility of CCBF allows for optimization of array processing by removing problematic station pairs and selective time-windowing.