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Imaging with ambient noise

Journal Article · · Physics Today
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3490500· OSTI ID:22038515
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  1. Colorado School of Mines, Golden (United States)
Recent developments in seismology, ultrasonics, and underwater acoustics have led to a radical change in the way scientists think about ambient noise--the diffuse waves generated by pressure fluctuations in the atmosphere, the scattering of water waves in the ocean, and any number of other sources that pervade our world. Because diffuse waves consist of the superposition of waves propagating in all directions, they appear to be chaotic and random. That appearance notwithstanding, diffuse waves carry information about the medium through which they propagate.
OSTI ID:
22038515
Journal Information:
Physics Today, Journal Name: Physics Today Journal Issue: 9 Vol. 63; ISSN 0031-9228; ISSN PHTOAD
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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