Efficient deployment of fiber-optic cable seismic sensors
Abstract
We explore the options in deployment of fiber-optic cables as seismic sensors, a technology that has only become practical recently.
Cables provide sensing capabilities along their lengths and thus provide a fundamentally different capability than the traditional point
sensors. Furthermore, cables can have gradual curves, and this enables deployments to be fit precisely to sensing needs such as
irregularities in the terrain. We discuss grid deployments and contrast them with curving deployments such as regular and irregular
spirals. We discuss how to manage deployments over terrain with varying degrees of interest for monitoring. We then discuss some
of the processing challenges in analyzing data where one dimension (distance) is much more precise than another (time of
occurrence). Key concerns are in detecting changes in speed and direction, which can be tracked if processors hand off data to one
another at known turn points such as road intersections. We discuss a bent-cable deployment that can facilitate such tracking.
Description
This paper appeared in the Proceedings of SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing Conference, Vol. 7693, Orlando, Florida, April 2010.
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