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A brute-strength approach to improving the quality of seismoelectric data

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2012
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Dean, Timothy and Dupuis, Christian and Herrmann, Rolf and Valuri, Jason. 2012. A brute-strength approach to improving the quality of seismoelectric data, in Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG), Nov 4-9 2012. Las Vegas: SEG.
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Successfully acquiring seismoelectric data is extremely difficult, mainly due to the inherently low signal-to-noise (SNR) ratio of the data. This difficulty is exacerbated by the weak sources (usually a sledgehammer) and low channel counts (12 to 24) commonly employed. In this article, we summarise two experiments we conducted to overcome these SNR limitations using a ‘brute-strength’ approach, i.e., employing a large seismic source, a hydraulic vibrator, and relatively high channel counts.