InsightTomo: In-Situ Seismic Tomographic Imaging System

In both industry and academic, the seismic exploration does not yet have the capability of illuminating the physical dynamics with high resolution and in real-time, as it involves collecting the raw seismic data from sensors to data loggers then manually retrieving data for post processing which may take months to complete. This study presents InsightTomo, a In-Situ Seismic Tomographic Imaging System based on sen-sor network technology and travel-time tomography princi-ples. It is a large-scale sensor network system design that senses and processes seismic signals, and compute 3D to-mography in-situ in real-time. The proposed InsightTomo system consists a distributed approach for tomography com-putation, collaborative signal processing and the associated sensor network design. We implemented InsightTomo and demonstrated that it can illuminate the 3D subsurface image of Parkfield in-situ in real-time. The design of InsightTomo in this paper is general, and can be implemented as a new field network paradigm for real-time imaging of highly dy-namic and complex environments