Advances in Near-surface Seismology and Ground-penetrating Radar, Volume 15

Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Development Series, Volume 15.

Advances in Near-surface Seismology and Ground-penetrating Radar (SEG Geophysical Developments Series No. 15) is a collection of original papers by renowned and respected authors from around the world. Technologies used in the application of near-surface seismology and ground-penetrating radar have seen significant advances in the last several years. Both methods have benefited from new processing tools, increased computer speeds, and an expanded variety of applications.

Chapter 1: Joint Inversion of Crosshole GPR and Seismic Traveltime Data
Author(s) Niklas Linde; Joseph A. Doetsch

Chapter 2: Estimation of Near-surface Shear-wave Velocity and Quality Factor by Inversion of High-frequency Rayleigh Waves
Author(s) Jianghai Xia; Richard D. Miller

Chapter 3: Investigation and Use of Surface-wave Characteristics for Near-surface Applications
Author(s) Yixian Xu; Yinhe Luo; Qing Liang; Liming Wang; Xianhai Song; Jiangping Liu; Chao Chen; Hanming Gu

Chapter 4: Advances in Surface-wave and Body-wave Integration
Author(s) Laura Valentina Socco; Daniele Boiero; Sebastiano Foti; Claudio Piatti

Section 2: Methodology

Chapter 5: Inversion for the Stochastic Structure of Subsurface Velocity Heterogeneity from Surface-based Geophysical Reflection Images
Author(s) James Irving; Marie Scholer; Klaus Holliger

Chapter 6: Toward True-amplitude Vector Migration of GPR Data Using Exact Radiation Patterns
Author(s) J. van der Kruk; R. Streich; M. Grasmueck

Chapter 7: Multiple-scale-porosity Wavelet Simulation Using GPR Tomography and Hydrogeophysical Analogs
Author(s) Erwan Gloaguen; Bernard Giroux; Denis Marcotte; Camille Dubreuil-Boisclair; Patrick Tremblay-Simard

Chapter 8: Estimating In Situ Horizontal Stress in Soil Using Time-lapse VS Measurements
Author(s) Ranajit Ghose

Chapter 9: Analysis of the Velocity Dispersion and Attenuation Behavior of Multifrequency Sonic Logs
Author(s) Ludovic Baron; Klaus Holliger

Chapter 10: Permittivity Structure Derived from Group Velocities of Guided GPR Pulses
Author(s) Matthew M. Haney; Kathryn T. Decker; John H. Bradford

Chapter 11: Sensitivity Studies of Fundamental- and Higher-mode Rayleigh-wave Phase Velocities in Some Specific Near-surface Scenarios
Author(s) Carlos Calderón-Macías; Barbara Luke

Chapter 12: Void Detection Using Near-surface Seismic Methods
Author(s) Steven D. Sloan; Shelby L. Peterie; Julian Ivanov; Richard D. Miller; Jason R. McKenna

Chapter 13: Inversion Methodology of Dispersive Amplitude and Phase versus Offset of GPR Curves (DAPVO) for Thin Beds
Author(s) Jacques Deparis; Stéphane Garambois

Chapter 14: Characterizing the Near Surface with Detailed Refraction Attributes
Author(s) Derecke Palmer

Chapter 15: Direct Determination of Electric Permittivity and Conductivity from Air-launched GPR Surface-reflection Data
Author(s) Evert Slob; Sébastien Lambot

Chapter 16: Theory of Viscoelastic Love Waves and their Potential Application to Near-surface Sensing of Permeability
Author(s) Paul Michaels; Vijay Gottumukkula

Section 3: Integrative Approaches

Chapter 17: High-resolution Seismic Imaging of Near-surface Fault Structures within the Upper Rhine Graben, Germany
Author(s) Musmann Patrick; Buness Hermann

Chapter 18: High-resolution SH-wave Seismic Reflection for Characterization of Onshore Ground Conditions in the Trondheim Harbor, Central Norway
Author(s) Polom Ulrich; Hansen Louise; Sauvin Guillaume; L’Heureux Jean-Sébastien; Lecomte Isabelle; Charlotte M. Krawczyk; Vanneste Maarten; Longva Oddvar

Chapter 19: Integrated Hydrostratigraphic Interpretation of 3D Seismic-reflection and Multifold Pseudo-3D GPR Data
Author(s) John H. Bradford

Chapter 20: Refraction Nonuniqueness Studies at Levee Sites Using the Refraction-tomography and JARS Methods
Author(s) Julian Ivanov; Richard D. Miller; Jianghai Xia; Joseph B. Dunbar; Shelby Peterie

Section 4: Case Studies

Chapter 21: Near-surface Shear-wave Velocity Measurements for Soft-soil Earthquake-hazard Assessment: Some Canadian Mapping Examples
Author(s) J. A. Hunter; D. Motazedian; H. L. Crow; G. R. Brooks; R. D. Miller; A. J.-M. Pugin; S. E. Pullan; J. Xia

Chapter 22: Integrating Seismic-velocity Tomograms and Seismic Imaging: Application to the Study of a Buried Valley
Author(s) Femi O. Ogunsuyi; Douglas R. Schmitt

Chapter 23: Estimation of Chalk Heterogeneity from Stochastic Modeling Conditioned by Crosshole GPR Traveltimes and Log Data
Author(s) Lars Nielsen; Majken C. Looms; Thomas M. Hansen; Knud S. Cordua; Lars Stemmerik

Chapter 24: Clayey Landslide Investigations Using Active and Passive VS Measurements
Author(s) F. Renalier; G. Bièvre; D. Jongmans; M. Campillo; P.-Y. Bard

Chapter 25: Detecting Perched Water Bodies Using Surface-seismic Time-lapse Traveltime Tomography Author(s) David Gaines; Gregory S. Baker; Susan S. Hubbard; David Watson; Scott Brooks; Phil Jardine

Chapter 26: Composite Moveout Correction to a Shallow Mixed Reflection/Refraction GPR Phase
Author(s) J. F. Hermance; R. W. Jacob; R. N. Bohidar

Chapter 27: Improving Fractured-rock Characterization Using Time-frequency Analysis of GPR Data Sets
Author(s) Mehrez Elwaseif; Lee Slater; Mamdouh Soliman; Hay Salah

Chapter 28: Application of the Spatial-autocorrelation Microtremor-array Method for Characterizing S-wave Velocity in the Upper 300 m of Salt Lake Valley, Utah
Author(s) William J. Stephenson; Jack K. Odum

Chapter 29: Integrated Approach for Surface-wave Analysis from Near Surface to Bedrock
Author(s) Ali Ismet Kanlı

Index

Richard D. Miller and John H. Bradford are the authors of Advances in Near-surface Seismology and Ground-penetrating Radar, Volume 15, published by Wiley.