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Session: How to Scale Up [Poster]

Type: Poster

Date: 10/9/2024

Time: 07:00 AM

Room: Stanley Park Ballroom

WITHDRAWN Enabling Access to DAS Earthquake Data with FiberSense’s DigitalSeismic Platform

WITHDRAWN A screenshot of the global fiber telecom network map motivates the photonic seismology community to scale up what is possible in earthquake seismology, but the effort required to execute any single DAS experiment on this network is extraordinary. Many  potential photonic seismologists are frustrated by high barriers to entry like fiber access, interrogator cost, interrogator configuration and know-how, security, and terabyte-per-day data management. Scientific understanding in this field (and many others!) would accelerate if only we could make DAS data as accessible as satellite-based earth observation data. FiberSense is addressing this problem through the development of a new data collection, storage, processing, and retrieval platform. Earthquake waveform data and metadata are collected from telecommunications fiber networks using FIberSense DAS systems and streamed in real time to the cloud, where they are stored and processed at scale, and from which they can be retrieved on demand. Seismology data products such as peak ground acceleration values, P- and S-wave arrival times and waveforms, waterfall diagrams, and digital map overlays with local surface geology are generated at time of data collection and stored for retrieval. We are currently working in several major earthquake zones in the Western US and New Zealand supporting local geophysics groups.

Presenting Author: Nathaniel

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