Near Surface Education Event

Join us for the first ever SEG educational event focused
on Near Surface Geophysics!
 

Date: 4 November 2013
Location: Learning Tree Conference Center, Reston, VA, USA

Event details

This event features three courses that have been selected cover a broad range and that will be of use to most practicing Near Surface geophysicists. 

Full-Waveform Inversion of Ground Penetrating Radar Data
by Dr. Jan van der Kruk

This one day course provides a thorough overview of full-waveform inversion of ground penetrating radar (GPR) data,  which is a promising technique that fully utilizes all of the information content present in high-frequency GPR and is capable of yielding sub-wavelength resolution images. The course includes a theoretical background, synthetic examples, and several case histories using crosshole, on-ground and off-ground GPR.

Practical Seismic surface Wave Methods
by Dr. Julian Ivanov

This one-day short course introduces the most important theoretical and practical aspects of the multichannel analysis of surface waves (MASW) method by a principle from the research group that originally developed the methodology.  Each student will be exposed to the most current approaches using active and passive Rayleigh surface waves for estimations of 1-D shear-wave velocity (Vs) and 2-D vertical profiles to depths of a few tens of meters.

HVSR-A Passive Seismic Resonance Method for Near-Surface Geophysics
by Dr. John W. Lane, Jr.

This one day course provides an introduction to the Horizontal to Vertical Spectral Ratio (HVSR) Method, an introduction to HVSR data analysis using Geopsy, acquisition of single-station HVSR data using 3-component seismometers, HVSR data download and importation into processing software. The course will include computer exercises and some data acquisition.