{"title":"Experimental Study on the Receiving Piezoelectric Vibrator of Azimuthal Acoustic Logging","authors":"Jun-qiang Lu, Bai-yong Men, X. Che","doi":"10.1093/jge/gxad026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jge/gxad026","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The performance of the azimuthal receiving piezoelectric vibrator has a major impact on the azimuthal acoustic logging tool. The evaluation of the performance and selective preference of piezoelectric vibrators through experimental methods will help improve the measurement accuracy of the tool. A heating tester was developed to test the static capacitance, resonant frequency, admittance and receiving amplitude of the vibrator at different temperatures. Far-field underwater acoustic tests were used to analyse the peak-to-peak amplitude, sensitivity and −3 dB angle of the vibrator and to determine the amplitude correction coefficients of each vibrator. The horizontal directivity of the azimuthally receiving phased subarray was also tested. Compared with the values at room temperature, the resonant frequency of the piezoelectric vibrator decreases by 9.20%, the static capacitance increases by 21.33% and the amplitude increases by 5.29% at a high temperature of 155°C. The underwater acoustic test showed that the main lobe of the receiving directional characteristic of the vibrator is symmetrical along the 0° main maximum direction, the −3 dB angle of the main lobe is 115°–142° and the average sensitivity level is −209.38 dB. The −3 dB angle of the receiving subarray is 66° and 60° without and with phase delay, respectively, and the energy of the received waveform is significantly increased. The piezoelectric vibrator can function stably at high temperatures, and its performance can be recovered after heating. It has good azimuthal resolution and high sensitivity, but the amplitude response has some discretion which needs to be corrected.","PeriodicalId":54820,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Geophysics and Engineering","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44094193","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"One-dimensional full-waveform inversion for magnetic induction data in ground-based transient electromagnetic methods","authors":"Jianhui Li, Xingchun Wang, Xiangyun Hu, Hongzhu Cai, Qingquan Zhi, Shi Chen","doi":"10.1093/jge/gxad025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jge/gxad025","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The full waveform effects refer to the total effects of turn-on, steady, and turn-off durations for a transmitting-current waveform as well as its repetition number in transient electromagnetic (TEM) methods. In this study, the full waveform effects are investigated using both forward-modelling and inversion methods considering typical background noise. The forward-modelling results of homogeneous half-space models show that the magnetic induction, bz, is less affected by the background noise but more affected by the full waveform effects than the time derivative of magnetic induction ∂bz/∂t. Therefore, this study focuses on investigating the full waveform effects on bz. The inversion results for synthetic and field examples show that the inversion algorithm without considering the full waveform effects leads to over-estimated resistivities in deeper parts of the recovered models compared to the true model. Therefore, it is crucial to consider the full waveform effects when processing TEM data. Furthermore, a standard deviation factor (STDF) is estimated for model parameters of the inversion. The results show that the STDF increases as the layer depth increases for 1D layered models. This indicates that the inverted parameters are well resolved for shallower layers and moderately to poorly resolved for deeper layers.","PeriodicalId":54820,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Geophysics and Engineering","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46685594","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Modeling of multi-mineral-component digital core based on Res-Unet","authors":"","doi":"10.1093/jge/gxad024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jge/gxad024","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 As the exploration of oil and gas moves further into less conventional reservoirs, effective methods are required for the fine evaluation of complex formations, particularly digital core models with multiple mineral components. The current technology cannot directly produce digital core images with multiple minerals. Therefore, image segmentation has been widely used to create digital multi-mineral core images from computed tomography (CT) images. The commonly used image segmentation methods do not provide satisfactory CT images of complex rock formations. Consequently, deep learning algorithms have been successfully applied for image segmentation. In this paper, a novel method is proposed to develop an accurate digital core model with multiple mineral components based on the Res-Unet neural network. CT images of glutenite and the corresponding results of quantitative evaluation of minerals by scanning electron microscopy (QEMSCAN) are used as a training dataset for the automatic segmentation of CT core images. The used quantitative metrics show that compared with the multi-threshold and U-Net segmentation methods, the Res-Unet network leads to better results of mineral morphology and distribution recognition. Finally, it is demonstrated that the proposed Res-Unet-based segmentation model is an effective tool for creating three-dimensional digital core models with multiple mineral components.","PeriodicalId":54820,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Geophysics and Engineering","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45374317","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
H. Teng, J. Jiao, X. Shang, Yanguang Wang, Shengtian Zhao, G. Yan, Bin Yang, Xianhuai Zhu
{"title":"Two-dimensional complex wavelet transform for linear noise attenuation and image decomposition","authors":"H. Teng, J. Jiao, X. Shang, Yanguang Wang, Shengtian Zhao, G. Yan, Bin Yang, Xianhuai Zhu","doi":"10.1093/jge/gxad022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jge/gxad022","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 For developing a high-fidelity, high-resolution seismic denoising method, we use the two-dimensional complex wavelet transform (2-D CWT) to analyze noise and signal. By investigating surface wave's features and evaluating factors affecting the fidelity of the method, the best practice for the wavelet transform-based denoising has been established. First, static and normal moveout correction are applied on shot gathers. Then, 2-D CWT is used to attenuate linear noises. The results demonstrate that the proposed method and practice significantly attenuate noises and preserve the signal's amplitudes and frequency band. In addition to denoising, we also apply the 2-D CWT to decompose a seismic image into multi-scale images with different resolutions. Multi-scale decomposed images derive more detailed information for subsurface structures and fault networks. The decomposed images depict sharper structures and reveal detailed features of faults more significantly than the original images.","PeriodicalId":54820,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Geophysics and Engineering","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43932597","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Plane-wave Least-squares Diffraction Imaging using Short-time Singular Spectrum Analysis","authors":"Yalin Li, Jianping Huang, Ganglin Lei, Wensheng Duan, Cheng Song, Xinwen Zhang","doi":"10.1093/jge/gxad021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jge/gxad021","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Diffractions are seismic waves generated by small-scale heterogeneities in the subsurface. These are often superimposed by strong reflections so that they are not visible on the image, leading to misinterpretation and incorrect localization of the scatterers. Therefore, the separation of diffracted and reflected waves is a crucial step in identifying these small-scale diffractors. To realize the separation of diffraction and imaging, a least-squares reverse time migration method of plane-waves (PLSRTM) optimized with short time singular spectrum analysis (STSSA) was developed in this work. The proposed STSSA algorithm exploits the properties of singular spectral analysis (SSA) to separate linear signals. By establishing the Hanning window and the energy compensation function, it also compensates for the shortcomings of SSA in local dip processing and convergence of linear signals. Since there is no clear boundary between reflected and diffracted waves, the energy loss during separation leads to a slow convergence rate of the diffraction wave imaging technique. We use STSSA as a constraint for PLSRTM, which greatly improves the imaging quality for diffraction waves. The tests with the SIGSBEE model and noisy seismic data have shown that our method can effectively improve the resolution of diffraction wave imaging and that the constraint of STSSA increases the robustness to noisy data.","PeriodicalId":54820,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Geophysics and Engineering","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46868952","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Integration of EM techniques for mapping buried historical harbours: a case study from the archaeological site of Tell el-Rub'a, Egypt","authors":"A. Mohamed, A. Beshr, G. Xue, G. El-Qady","doi":"10.1093/jge/gxad016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jge/gxad016","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This study focuses on the integrated application of the frequency-domain (terrain conductivity, TC) and transient electromagnetic (TEM) methods to map an ancient riverine harbour (port) at the Egyptian archaeological site of Tell el-Rub'a (prehistoric Mendes). Fifty-one TC profiles were measured using six EM frequencies and sixteen TEM soundings were performed at the selected site. The apparent conductivity maps derived from the TC survey enabled defining the lateral extension of the harbour basin and its edges to penetration depths ranging between 12–30 m. The vertical extension of the harbour basin was determined using the TEM inversion. Three layers were defined: the topsoil, the conductive silty clay infill, and the resistive sand bedrock. The bedrock is found at depths ranging from 19 to 31 m. The TC and TEM results were combined to form a 3D image of the harbour basin. This study confirms the existence of Mendes harbour and demonstrates the effectiveness of the TC and TEM methods for such archaeological studies.","PeriodicalId":54820,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Geophysics and Engineering","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41702482","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kangxin Lei, Jinjing Shi, Weiying Chen, Wanting Song
{"title":"Shadow effect and source overprint effect of short-offset transient electromagnetic method","authors":"Kangxin Lei, Jinjing Shi, Weiying Chen, Wanting Song","doi":"10.1093/jge/gxad020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jge/gxad020","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 In artificial-source electromagnetic explorations, shadow effect and source overprint effect are one of the key factors to affect the detection reliability. Compared with the frequency-domain electromagnetic methods, transient electromagnetic (TEM) shadow effect and source overprint effect are more complex, especially for the short-offset TEM (SOTEM) observed in the near-source region. However, there is less relevant research. Therefore, in the paper, we first realize 3D SOTEM simulations based on the vector time-domain finite element method, then further analyze the generation of SOTEM shadow effect and source overprint effect from view of the diffused electromagnetic fields, as well as their influence on ground Ex and dBz/dt responses. Results show that the attraction or repulsion of the electrical inhomogeneity would affect the diffusion speed of the electromagnetic fields, which is the essential of the two source effects. Besides, from view of the ground Ex and dBz/dt responses, the relative anomaly of SOTEM shadow effect is almost twice of those of SOTEM source overprint effect, i.e. SOTEM shadow effect is easier to be recorded, especially for the dBz/dt responses. In addition, due to the shadow effect, SOTEM may fail to identify the real target anomaly. While the influence of the source overprint effect for recognizing the target anomaly mainly occurs on all-time dBz/dt responses and early-time Ex responses (before about 10 ms), that is, observing late-time SOTEM Ex responses can effectively avoid such influence. Hence, to fully ensure avoiding the influence of the source overprint effect, we suggest adopting high-power transmission to increase the late-time signal-to-noise ratio in the field measurement.","PeriodicalId":54820,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Geophysics and Engineering","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43047212","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An advanced detection method for unfavorable geological boulder based on electrical source in drill holes under shield machine","authors":"He Li, Xiu Li, Wenhan Li, Z. Qi, H. Cao","doi":"10.1093/jge/gxad019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jge/gxad019","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Recent years, due to the increasingly complex terrain, geological conditions, and working environments in engineering, the accuracy requirements in explorations have been continuously growing. In this study, with the goal of high-resolution prospecting for unfavorable geological boulder under complex detection environment (such as subway shield machine tunnel). A tunnel model with unfavorable geological boulder was constructed, and time domain finite element method (TDFEM) was adopted for the 3D transient electromagnetic forward modelling. In order to realize high resolution in the positioning of the small-scaled boulders, a detection method in complex environments was explored. A hole was drilled from the central point of the tunnel face toward the tunnel construction direction. Then, an electrical source was placed into the hole and array data was collected on the tunnel face. Electromagnetic sounding was achieved through the movement of the source, and the plane positions of the geological bodies were determined through the electromagnetic field distribution characteristics on the tunnel face. It was observed that the Ex and Ey (horizontal component of electric field) had higher resolution for high resistance geological boulder. Therefore, the results indicated that in complex environments, collecting the horizontal components of the electric fields on the tunnel face excited by the electrical source within the drill hole could provide a feasible method for the fine explorations of small-scale high resistance boulder.","PeriodicalId":54820,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Geophysics and Engineering","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43103907","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"ELF-EM fields in the multilayer spherical “earth-ionosphere” model based on W.K.B.","authors":"Ya Gao, Q. Di, C. Fu, Yilang Zhang","doi":"10.1093/jge/gxad017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jge/gxad017","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 With a high signal-to-noise ratio and a great depth of exploration, the wireless electromagnetic method (WEM) has wide applications in the exploration of deep mineral resources and oil and gas reservoirs. Extremely low-frequency electromagnetic (ELF) waves emitted from a horizontal antenna are used to achieve synchronous acquisition for different receivers of multi-coverage information in a global region. However, previous research based on a planar model ignored the curvature of the Earth. This work focuses on the electromagnetic fields (EM fields) in the model of a spherical “Earth ionosphere” to extend the coverage of WEM. By transferring the EM fields from a vertical electric dipole (VED) as well as a vertical magnetic dipole (VMD) in the multi-layered medium of the Earth, we obtain the formulae for the EM fields emitted by a horizontal electric dipole (HED) by using a reciprocity theorem. The correctness of the proposed method is verified by comparing it with the approximate analytical formula and previous work. Based on the above results, we have studied the propagation and frequency characteristics of electromagnetic fields in a spherical waveguide consisting of the ionosphere and earth. The results show that the electromagnetic fields under the spherical model produce interference effects that are different from those of the planar model. The electromagnetic response of the layered Earth was then discussed, and its potential as an electromagnetic technique for exploring the deep Earth was demonstrated.","PeriodicalId":54820,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Geophysics and Engineering","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46844611","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"U-net-based pseudoseismic imaging for the short-offset transient electromagnetic method","authors":"Yang Zhao, Xin Wu, Weiying Chen","doi":"10.1093/jge/gxad014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jge/gxad014","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Short-offset transient electromagnetic (SOTEM) is an innovation of the artificial-source electromagnetic method, and detection is conducted in the near-source area using an electromagnetic formation wave so that the signal has strong strength and large bandwidth. Inspired by the parallelism of the propagation of seismic body waves and EM formation waves, this paper intends to implement pseudoseismic imaging (PSI) on SOTEM data to give play to the high resolution of SOTEM. Traditionally, to perform the wave-field transform (WFT), a set of ill-posed linear equations needs to be solved, and the solving process has strong ambiguity and instability. This paper presents a new method for performing WFT based on U-Net, and a nonlinear mapping from the EM diffusion field to the pseudoseismic wave field under the same velocity model is established by training the network. To eliminate the error that might result when the time‒depth transform is conducted for the wave-field record, another U-Net is used to transform the wave-field record into a depth-offset profile to accomplish the whole pseudoseismic imaging process for SOTEM. Simulation and measured data are used to validate the effect of the networks, and the results indicate that this approach is highly feasible, thus providing a new strategy for using SOTEM to detect sedimentary strata.","PeriodicalId":54820,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Geophysics and Engineering","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-03-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49591659","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}