Passive Imaging in Nondiffuse Acoustic Wavefields
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Settore di Geofisica, Universita di Bologna (Italy)
A main property of diffuse acoustic wavefields is that, taken any two points, each of them can be seen as the source of waves and the other as the recording station. This property is shown to follow simply from array azimuthal selectivity and Huygens principle in a locally isotropic wavefield. Without time reversal, this property holds approximately also in anisotropic azimuthally uniform wavefields, implying much looser constraints for undistorted passive imaging than those required by a diffuse field. A notable example is the seismic noise field, which is generally nondiffuse, but is found to be compatible with a finite aperture anisotropic uniform wavefield. The theoretical predictions were confirmed by an experiment on seismic noise in the mainland of Venice, Italy.
- OSTI ID:
- 21132473
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review Letters, Vol. 100, Issue 21; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.218501; (c) 2008 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0031-9007
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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