Listening to Ice Sheets - Fibre Optic Cables as Seismic Sensors in the Antarctic

Kendall, M.; Brisbourne, Alex ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9887-7120; Hudson, T. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2944-883X; Kufner, S-K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9687-5455; Butcher, A.; Baird, A.; Smith, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8577-482X; Chalari, A.; Clarke, A.. 2021 Listening to Ice Sheets - Fibre Optic Cables as Seismic Sensors in the Antarctic. EAGE GeoTech 2021 Second EAGE Workshop on Distributed Fibre Optic Sensing, 2021. 5, pp. https://doi.org/10.3997/2214-4609.202131076

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Abstract/Summary

The use of fibre as a Distributed Acoustic Sensor (DAS) is a recently developed technology with enormous potential, and, until recently, never tested in Antarctica. Here we show how DAS methods can be used to record icequakes, and to interrogate the internal properties of ice using seismic refraction studies and vertical seismic profiling. In the Austral Summer of 2020, we used fibre optic cables to study the Rutford Ice Stream and the Skytrain Ice Rise of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet.

Item Type:	Publication - Article
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.3997/2214-4609.202131076
Date made live:	23 Feb 2021 14:36 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/529723

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