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An Air wave is simply the sound or acoustic wave created by the source, which by definition is what travels through the Air rather than the ground. It is what you hear. In most cases, the seismic velocity of the near surface materials has higher than the velocity of sound in Air. But in some cases the Air wave is faster, and can arrive at the geophones before the seismic first break. This can make the first breaks difficult to pick.
An example of an Air wave is shown below. The traveltime graph of an Airwave is linear, and will be about 330m/s. It is generally lower in amplitude and higher in frequency than the first break, and can generally be dealt with in processing using a low-cut filter.
The MetalMapper 2x2 is a specialized instrument used for the characterization and discrimination of UXO (unexploded ordnance). The instrument uses an array of transmitter coils and receiver cubes to measure the EMI (electromagnetic induction) response of buried metal targets in the ground. Using software inversion algorithms, the data is used to discriminate targets of interest (TOI) from scrap metal.
Most metal UXO larger than a 37mm projectile can be discriminated from scrap metal. It can be difficult or impossible to discriminate smaller munitions like 20mm or small arms rounds. The MetalMapper 2×2 cannot be used for Anti-tank or Anti-personnel landmines, or for other UXO that is non-metallic.
The MetalMapper 2×2 can usually detect all UXO targets of interest to depths of 60cm, and larger TOI to depths of 1m or more.
The time associated with each data point in a SEG-2 data file generated by a Geode is related to the time of the
“trigger” event which was instrumental in the production of the file and its content.
The Trigger Master and Trigger Distribution
The trigger event occurs at the Geode designated within the Controller software as the Trigger Master.
Although all Geodes are capable of being Trigger Masters, there must be one and only one Trigger Master in
any properly functioning Geode system. The Controller automatically takes care of this requirement when the
designation is made by a user, and when the system is established at the time of Controller start-up based on a
previous designation (or a default setting in the case of a “new survey”). All other Geodes in the system will
have their Trigger Master circuit disabled. A trigger event can be initiated by an external electrical pulse
provided to the trigger input connector of the Trigger Master Geode, or by a command sent via Ethernet from
the Controller to the Trigger Master (usually for test purposes), but only when all conditions are satisfied to
allow data recording. There is also a special trigger initiation situation, called “self-triggering” which will not
be discussed further here.
Upon acceptance of a trigger event, the Trigger Master will distribute the trigger signal to all Geodes in the
system, itself included, via an RS-485 network that resides within the digital interconnect cabling. (Proper
termination of this RS-485 network is automatically taken care of by the Controller.) The trigger signal is
propagated through the cabling and Geodes at the nominal speed of 70% of the speed of light, or approximately
2.1x10^8 m/sec. The maximum distance of successful propagation depends on a number of factors such as the
number of Geodes involved, the noise environment, the quality of the cables, and the acceptable amount of
timing uncertainty for the particular application. Distances approaching or exceeding 1km should be given
careful attention in this regard. In a 3-D Geode system involving LTUs, each LTU, unlike a Geode, will
reconstruct the trigger signal before sending it on, effectively confining the maximum distance issue to each
sub-network separated by LTUs. The penalty is an additional delay of about 100nS for each LTU in the route.
The External Trigger Circuit
The external trigger input is capacitively coupled, with a 2mS time constant, to the midpoint of a resistive
voltage divider. The voltage difference between the two ends of the divider constitute a voltage "window",
which size is set by the trigger sensitivity parameter and can range from essentially zero at the highest
sensitivity, to about +/- 2.5V at the lowest sensitivity. The Geode will trigger (if enabled) if and when the
coupled signal exceeds the window, in either direction (i.e., positive or negative going). The signal, after the
capacitor, is clamped by diodes to the range between the trigger signal ground and +5VDC.
The trigger detector output is disabled when the system is disarmed, during a parameter change, and during a
shot, up to the trigger hold-off time after the end of the shot. The trigger hold-off time is a parameter set by the
user.
Preceding the coupling capacitor (i.e., essentially the node accessible at pin A of the external connector), there
is a 3.3K-Ohm pull-up resistor to +5VDC (relative to pin B). Also a fast transient suppressor clamps the input
at about +/-14VDC. It is advised that the DC + AC level of any voltage applied to pin A relative to pin B be
kept within the range of +/-7V, giving some margin of safety.
If a DC voltage somewhat less than +5VDC is applied when the connector is first mated, the instrument may
trigger at that moment. But, subsequently, because of the capacitive coupling, it will trigger on the next positive
or negative going pulse that exceeds the window level. If the duration of the applied voltage pulse is less than
the record length + delay time + hold-off time, then the Geode will effectively be ready to trigger on the same
edge of another similar pulse.
Sub-sample Synchronization
The Geode supports a sub-sample timing synchronization feature used for synchronizing the data acquisition
after a trigger event to the distributed trigger signal, so that subsequent time points will be known to within 1/32
(~1/20 at the fastest two sampling rates) sample interval. It does this by increasing the sample interval at the
trigger time by 0 to 31/32 of a sample interval in increments of 1/32, so that the first sample after the trigger
would represent a time of one sample interval after the trigger event, with a tolerance within 1/32 of a sample
interval. The following samples continue from there at the expected intervals. For example, with a selected
sampling interval of ¼ mS and a recording delay of 0mS, the first sample in the recorded file for each channel
would represent data at 250 to 258uS after the trigger event.
This of course potentially introduces a small discontinuity at the time of the trigger, observable depending on
the nature of the channel waveform(s). (The zero-phase Anti-alias filter will smear the discontinuity into the
nearby samples both before and after, consistent with the bandwidth of the filter.) Sub-sample synchronization
can be disabled if it is deemed to be detrimental for the particular application, at the expense of losing the 1/32
interval timing accuracy.
Timing Errors
The principal errors in Geode timing are of two types: those associated with the trigger mechanism and which
are static over the duration of the record, and those associated with the time base and which change over the
duration of the record. Excluding the trigger propagation delay mentioned above, the trigger timing uncertainty
is about 1uS. The known fixed errors have been lumped together and are reported in the SEG-2 file trace
headers as channel SKEW. (The actual channel skew is zero, since all channels are effectively sampled
simultaneously, but the SKEW value in the header is used as the only place permitting small timing corrections.
Note that the SKEW value for every channel is identical.) If the size of this correction is important to the
application, the SKEW value should be added to the calculated time points when the data is being processed.
The Geode time base has a +/-15ppm stability over temperature (-20C to +70C) and component variations.
Thus time drift relative to absolute time and relative to other Geodes is possible. (However, all channels within
any Geode enclosure use the same time base, so there is no relative drift between channels in the same
enclosure.) Therefore timing uncertainty increases from that existing at the time of the trigger until the time of
the next trigger (or end of record).
Special Timing Issues Involved with “Continuous” Recording
“Continuous” recording is a method that allows unending 100% time coverage with recorded Geode data. It
produces a series of time-overlapped records created by the use of a negative time delay set equal to the record
length such that each record consists of completed history at the time of the trigger event. This technique
circumvents the problem of data transmission overrunning data acquisition. The principle constraint is that the
cycle time from trigger to trigger must always be less than the chosen record length. Otherwise, gaps rather
than overlap would result. Commonly it is used with GPSderived
triggering in order to provide time-stamping of each trigger event.
Upon consideration of the above, it will become clear that the time-stamp associated with a particular trigger
event will pertain to the data in the following record, not to the data in the record in which the time-stamp is
written. This comes about because the trigger event ends the record.
Because there is data overlap between records, the precise trigger point in the following record at which the
time-stamp applies can be found by comparison of the data values at the end of the former record with those
near the beginning of the subsequent record. The overlapping data will be exactly identical in both records
(since they are read from the same memory location, twice). The earliest data in the subsequent record that
goes beyond the data of the previous record is the data that is one sample interval (assuming sub-sample
synchronization is enabled) past the time-stamp.
Note well that this comparison must be made independently for at least one channel of each 8-channel Geode
board set, because the discrete time at which data values are written to the memory buffer, relative to the trigger
event, is a function of each individual board set in the Geode system.
Correct GPS Time-Stamping
There are differences between various GPS models that can affect accurate time stamping. The 1PPS signal
from a GPS has a “timing edge” and return edge, of which only the former is the true whole-second edge.
Some models use a rising edge as the timing edge, some the falling edge, and some have it selectable. Consult
the GPS manual to determine the definition of its timing edge. As indicated earlier, the Geode can be triggered
on either a rising or falling edge. It is important to insure that the Geode is being triggered on the proper edge
in order to avoid timing that may be a fraction of a second off. This is expanded upon below.
Some GPS units provide a very narrow timing pulse, others one that has a nearly 50/50 duty cycle. For the
narrow pulse units, almost certainly it is the leading edge (rising or falling) that is the “timing edge”. This case
can be easily handled by using the Geode Trigger Hold-off feature. If a 10-second cycle time is desired, set the
Trigger Hold-off time to about 9.5 seconds. In this case, there is a very small chance that the very first trigger
could occur on the wrong (trailing) edge, but from then on the leading edge will be used as the triggering edge.
If the GPS provides a 50/50 duty cycle edge, and it is not alterable, then the Geode by itself could as easily start
on the wrong edge as on the correct timing edge, and continue thusly until restarted. For this case, Geometrics
can provide a Trigger Timing Interface Box (TTIB) that will correct the situation. The TTIB can be
programmed to respond only to the correct edge (rising or falling), change the polarity if needed, and gate
through only one of every N 1PPS pulses, where N is programmable. (The TTIB also incorporates an alarm
system that can provide a remote alert if a record is missed.)
Another potential issue comes from the variations between GPS models of the time that the serial time string
(containing the time value of the associated 1PPS) is issued relative to the 1PPS itself. The Geode Controller
attempts to pick the correct serial string based on a calculation involving the known record length, the PC times,
and the trigger notification message from the Geodes. But if the GPS issues the serial string at an unusual time
(and the time has been seen to vary somewhat with a given GPS unit) then it could pick up the incorrect time,
off by 1 second. If rare, it can be subsequently detected and corrected during data processing, but if consistent
it may not be easily detected. Again, the TTIB can accommodate the situation by only gating through to the Controller PC the string belonging to the gated-through 1PPS pulse. The Controller Serial Input Time Window can then safely be widened to 2 seconds (assuming the
cycle time is more than 2 seconds) if need be, to expand the Controller’s search for the string around the calculated trigger time.
Further Elaboration: You might ask this question to try and understand the low frequency response to determine if the Geode amplifiers effectively have a flat response from DC up. Does the Geode go down to DC for example?
Answer: We apply Anti-alias filters to the data to prevent out of band noise from being introduced into the data.
The filters are set with a corner frequency at ¾ of the Nyquist frequency (1/2 the sampling frequency) for almost all of the sampling frequencies. When we sample at 1.5625 uS, the Nyquist frequency is 32kHz and the filters are set at 20 kHz, because of limitations of our electronics.
There are two single-pole filters: one analog and one digital. The analog filter is a simple RC filter with 1uF +/-5% and 100kOhm +/- 1%. We short out the capacitor in the conversion process. The digital filter is software controlled when the option is registered, so it can be switched in or out in the field. It is an IIR Butterworth with a -3dB corner at 0.9Hz for 48ksps sampling, and 0.6Hz at all the lower sample rates.
Also, we offer software and hardware options to modify the low end frequency response of the Geode.
Low-end bandwidth modification:
1.5 Hz, P/N 28311-37
0.6 Hz, P/N 28147-01
DC, P/Ns 28147-02, 28311-37per system plus
Attachment : Bulletin_Good Practice-Charging the Atom.V1.pdf
This bulletin is written to inform those customers who purchased the ATOM 1C and 3C seismographs (“Atoms”), to allow for out gassing and temperature cooling when charging the batteries.
Background:
Geometrics has noted that some users use fitted cases for their Atoms to allow for safe shipping and handling between deployments. If the Atoms are fitted with charging cables and are being charged while inside the fitted cases, under certain circumstances, the fitted cases may not allow for sufficient Air circulation and could lead to excessive temperatures inside the Atom unit. These excessive temperatures can exceed the battery manufacturers suggested safe charging temperature, resulting in some instances in out-gassing of hydrogen during the charging process.
Recommendation:
Geometrics recommends that users remove their Atom unit(s) from any enclosed/insulated boxes (including fitted cases) prior to charging. Each Atom unit requires adequate surface to Air access for heat dissipation. We also recommend that users do not leave the Atom unit on charge for long periods of time. Geometrics recommends that a typical maximum charge time should not exceed 12-15 hours.
Precautionary Steps:
In addition to using good practice charging as we have described in this Bulletin, Geometrics will provide users a procedure for installing a GORE® Protective Vent to allow for the release of pressure and gas from inside the fitted case housing should such pressure and gas accumulate. These vents can be installed at local service centers or at Geometrics factory.
Please contact our Geometrics Support organization at for additional information.
The cesium used in our magnetometers is the non-radioactive elemental metal, isotope Cs 133. We employ approximately 120 to 240 micrograms of cesium metal in the sensor divided between the lamp and absorption cell. These are small glass ampules, each containing a volume of 1/32 to 1/16 of a cubic millimeter of cesium. If either or both the lamp and cell should break the cesium will instantaneously react with the Air and moisture in the Air to become Cs2O and/or CsOH. Both compounds are caustic but the quantity is so small that it is of no health concern. Finally, the lamp and the cell ampules are contained in a G10 housing that is then contained inside a sealed PVC housing. If the sensor should cease working due to a broken lamp and/or cell, it is not field repairable. Return the sensor to Geometrics for repair, replacement and/or disposal.
I assume you can feel the spring when you insert the micro-SD card. Did you try to format your micro-SD to exFAT?
The other thing I can think of is somehow there is dirt stuck inside the SD socket. Maybe try to blow the socket with Air.
General information
The most common symptoms of intermittent connection issues are shown below: D_CY shows a background decay signal is either much higher than normal, and/or C_CY is a flat line (doesn’t decay).
Figure 1 Intermittent connection issue.
Where is the failure occurring?
The two most common places where intermittent issues occur are at the two ends of the Rx cable: the joint between the Rx cable and the Cart and the joint between the Rx cable and the EDA box (orange box).
Now we need to identify which joint has the intermittent issue.
Set up the MM2x2 in DAM mode.
Collect DAM data while keeping the Cart stationary but tapping one joint.
Collect another DAM data while tapping the other joint.
Analyze the DAM data by plotting the “Monostatic_5” for all 12 Rx channels in Geosoft. The channels having intermittent issues will appear much noisier.
If you have MatLab software, you can download the MatLab code to analyze the DAM data. Example plots are shown below. It is obvious that “ZA” channel has the intermittent issue in Figure 2 and “XB” channel is open in Figure 3 (very flat line, no noise at all). Click here to download the code:
Attachment : Intermittent_noise_full.zip
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If both DAM and IVS data have the same problematic channel(s), we are confident that the intermittent issues observed in IVS data are repeated in DAM data, and by tapping at that location, we are able to identify the intermittent joint.
Figure 2 Intermittent "ZA" channel.
Figure 3 Open "XB" channel.
What to do next?
Disconnect the problematic joint and clean the connectors on both sides thoroughly (using an acid brush and a can of compressed Air). Reconnect and try the tapping method again. If the problem goes away (no more noisy channels), the intermittent issue is likely caused by dust.
If cleaning doesn’t fix the problem, swap out the Rx cable and repeat the tapping method. If the problem goes away, it is likely caused by a bad Rx cable.
If there is another set of EDA and Cart available, swap out the EDA and the Cart to identify the problematic part.
If not, use the tapping location to identify the problematic part.
Fill out the RMA form at .
If it is the Cart, send in the whole system for inspection/repair. You can contact Geometrics for MM2x2 rental if you need to continue your work during the down time.
If it is the EDA, we recommend sending in the EDA only. It will save your repair time since it is much faster to unpack/pack/ship the EDA than the whole system. You can contact Geometrics for EDA rental if you need to continue your work during the down time.
Warning
Please note that this tapping method should ONLY be tried when intermittent issues have been observed in IVS tests. It is NOT recommended to use it as a daily QC test because it does put extra stress on connectors and likely leads to a shortened connector lifetime if applied too often.
With the provided 10-feet suspension cables, the magnetic noise due to most commercial drones can be ignored. However, some MagArrow customers experience stability issue, especially in windy conditions.
For a small number of drones, the MagArrow can be attached to the landing gear directly with acceptable noises (line-levelling is still required in data processing).
For most drones, however, this configuration causes too much noise. A half rigid mounting design may solve this problem. It has 2 rigid bars with hinges on one side and 2 flexible cables on the other. On the ground, the rigid side folds to the side. While in the Air, gravity will keep the MagArrow further away from the drone. Drone noise can be greatly suppressed since the noise follows 1/R^3. A factor of 2 increase in the separation can lead to a factor of 8 decrease in noise.
Please make sure the hinges and the rigid bars are made of non-magnetic material.
This is rarely necessary or helpful, even in high noise conditions. If you are having difficulty with Air waves, burying the geophones might blunt their effect. If planted properly, wind is generally not a factor, and if it is, it is usually via vegetation vibrating around the geophones, which would not be mitigated by burial.
All wave phenomena, the most familiar being visible light, are subject to refraction, or a change in propagation direction, at interfaces between materials of contrasting propagation velocities. The bigger the difference in velocity, the more the energy is refracted or "bent". As the name implies, seismic refraction uses the travel times of refracted seismic energy to determine the seismic velocity of the earth. A short practical discussion of seismic refraction can be found here.
The most important thing to keep in mind when learning how the seismic refraction method works is this:
When doing seismic refraction, we are only interested in first-arrival energy at each geophone. The rest of the wave train -- reflected energy, surface waves, etc. are discarded and ignored. Except in the exceedingly rare case where the near-surface is slower than the speed of sound in Air, the first-arrival energy will always be either direct or critically-refracted energy.
Common applications of seismic refraction include:
Estimating rippability prior to excavation
Mapping depth to bedrock/bedrock topography
Mapping depth to ground water
Measuring the thickness of the weathering zone
Calculation of elastic moduli/assessment of rock quality
Mapping thickness of landslides
Identification and mapping of faults
Seismic refraction uses body waves, most commonly, p-waves. Shear-wave refraction can also be done, but it has become largely supplanted by MASW.
Snell’s Law describes quantitatively how wave fronts refract or "bend" at boundaries between contrasting velocities. You've seen it manifest in light waves by the apparent bend of the straw in your glass of water; light travels slower in water than it does in Air. Refraction is well illustrated using Huygen's Principle. Consider a wave front (for our purposes, a seismic one) emanating from a point energy source, as shown in the animation above. For simplification, assume we are far enough from the energy source that the wave front is essentially planar, and is approaching an abrupt change in seismic velocity:
Applying Huygen's Principle, we see that after time t, the plane wave has advanced a distance d equal to the radii of a series of spherical wave fronts emanating from the plane wave:
The radii of the spheres, i.e., the distance the plane wave travels in time t, is equal to V1t. The tangent to the spherical wave fronts is the new position of the plane wave. The planar wavefront continues at velocity V1. Again applying Huygen, we see that "every point on the wave front" (see discussion of Huygen above) includes the points where the wave front intersects the velocity boundary:
As the planar wave front advances, the velocity boundary becomes a new source of spherical wave fronts expanding at V2. Hence, part of the plane wave (the tangent to the spherical wave fronts emanating from the velocity boundary) is now traveling at V2. Note that within V2, its direction of advance has changed. This is because in V2, which is higher than V1, Huygen's spheres grow faster during time t.
The refracted wave front continues in the new direction until another velocity boundary is encountered. Here is a simplified version at higher speed:
Zooming out, we see the effect of this on a spherical wave:
It should be obvious from the above that in order for a wave front to refract, it must strike the velocity boundary at an angle other than 90 degrees. It should also be obvious that in the case of V2 < V1, refraction will be in the opposite direction, and if V1 = V1, no refraction will occur.
Snell's Law quantifies refraction in terms of angle of incidence and velocity contrast. Combining the above diagrams and adding rays,
we can now describe Snell's Law:
In the figure above, i is the incident angle, and r is the refracted angle, measured between the ray and a line perpendicular to the refracting interface. In the example above, the velocity contrast is positive; V2 > V1. There are numerous derivations of Snell's Law on the web if you wish to understand the math.
From the equation, you can see that for any given positive velocity contrast, as i increases, r increases faster:
This is important; it is the property of refraction that allows us to use refracted energy to measure subsurface velocities.
Conversely, a negative velocity contrast results in refraction in the opposite direction:
Different types of seismic waves travel at different velocities through any given material. In addition, different materials have different seismic properties, meaning that any one wave type can have a wide range of velocities, depending on the material properties. For instance, the p-wave velocity of shale can range from 800-3,700 m/s. Granite can range from 4,800-6,700 m/s. Because of this, by themselves, seismic velocities alone are not particularly diagnostic with regard to rock type.
Ultimately, seismic velocity depends on the density and elastic properties of the material, whatever its composition. Specifically,
Compressional-wave velocity depends on the “incompressibility” of the material, as embodied in the bulk modulus. The higher the bulk modulus, the less compressible the material, and the higher the p-wave velocity. Sound travels through water about four times faster than it does through Air. Similarly, shear-wave velocity depends on the rigidity of the material, or the resistance to shear. The higher the shear modulus, the higher the s-wave velocity. Mathematically,
where
K = bulk modulus
µ = shear modulus
ρ = density
Note that Vp depends on both the bulk and shear modulus, while Vs depends only on the shear modulus. This observation implies two things:
Shear waves always travel slower than compressional waves through a given material.
Materials with zero rigidity – i.e., fluids – do not carry shear waves at all. Therefore, the absence or presence of groundwater has no effect on the shear wave velocity. It is interesting to note that, in general, seismic velocity increases with density – denser rocks tend to be much harder and faster. Yet in the above equations, density is in the denominator. This is known as the “velocity-density paradox”, the answer to which can be found in the fact that the elastic moduli tend to increase with density as well, and at a faster rate.