The research field “Applied Geophysics” investigates and develops seismic imaging techniques and their application to different spatial scales. Topics include borehole and tunnel exploration and imaging, environmental and engineering geophysics (ground and groundwater related), and hydrocarbon exploration. Currently, the working group is focusing its efforts on the massive-parallelized simulation and inversion of full elastic wave fields, reflection seismics (CRS-methods), and the improvement of near surface seismic measurements. Scientific work related to these topics is conducted as part of industry cooperations, national and international research programs, and the Wave-Inversion Technology consortium (WIT).

Research Topics and Projects

FD-Simulation of seismic waves

• Software and Download

Development of seismic imaging techniques

• Seismic exploration ahead of the boreholes using borehole waves

• Seismic Observation for Underground Development - SOUND

• Seismic imaging around the borehole - SAB

• Development and application of the Reverse Time Migration

   

Tomography and inversion of elastic wave fields

• Tomography of acoustic and elastic reflected wave fields - FWT

• Acquisition and inversion of shallow seismic surface waves - MIFO

• Toolbox for Applied Seismic Tomography - TOAST

   

Further development of field acquistion techniques for near surface exploration

• Multi component seismic measurement

• Localization of seismic sources (drill bit, impact noise)

   

Development of seismic imaging techniques

• Further development on the CRS-method/NIP-wave tomography - CRS