Filtering Strategies for Deformation-Rate Distributed Acoustic Sensing.
Sensors (Basel)
; 22(22)2022 Nov 14.
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ABSTRACT
Deformation-rate distributed acoustic sensing (DAS), made available by the unique designs of certain interrogator units, acquires seismic data that are theoretically equivalent to the along-fiber particle velocity motion recorded by geophones for scenarios involving elastic ground-fiber coupling. While near-elastic coupling can be achieved in cemented downhole installations, it is less obvious how to do so in lower-cost horizontal deployments. This investigation addresses this challenge by installing and freezing fiber in shallow backfilled trenches (to 0.1 m depth) to achieve improved coupling. This acquisition allows for a reinterpretation of processed deformation-rate DAS waveforms as a "filtered particle velocity" rather than the conventional strain-rate quantity. We present 1D and 2D filtering experiments that suggest 2D velocity-dip filtering can recover improved DAS data panels that exhibit clear surface and refracted arrivals. Data acquired on DAS fibers deployed in backfilled, frozen trenches were more repeatable over a day of acquisition compared to those acquired on a surface-deployed DAS fiber, which exhibited more significant amplitude variations and lower signal-to-noise ratios. These observations suggest that deploying fiber in backfilled, frozen trenches can help limit the impact of environmental factors that would adversely affect interpretations of time-lapse DAS observations.
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Sensors (Basel)
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2022
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