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Human and Machine Listening of Seismic Data

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Paté, Arthur
Holtzman, Benjamin
Waldhauser, Felix
Repetto, Douglas
Paisley, John
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Geothermal energy mining consists of injecting cold water into hot rocks in order to create micro-fractures allowing heat to be extracted and converted into electrical energy. This water injection can trigger several rock fracture processes. Seismologists are facing the challenge of identifying and understanding these fracture processes in order to maximize heat extraction and minimize induced seismicity. Our assumption is that each fracture process is characterized by spectro-temporal features and patterns that are not picked up by current signal processing methods used in seismology, but can be identified by the human auditory system and/or by machine learning. We present here a pluridisciplinary methodology aimed at addressing this problem, combining machine learning, auditory display and sound perception.
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2017-06
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