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There is a growing need to characterize the engineering material properties of the shallow subsurface in three dimensions for advanced engineering analyses. However, imaging the near-surface in three dimensions at spatial resolutions required for such purposes remains in its infancy and requires further study before it can be adopted into practice. To enable and accelerate research in this area, we present a large subsurface imaging data set acquired using a dense network of three-component (3C) nodal stations acquired in 2019 at the Garner Valley Downhole Array (GVDA) site. Acquisition of this data set involved the deployment of 196 stations positioned on a 14 × 14 grid with a 5 m spacing. The array was used to acquire active-source data generated by a vibroseis truck and an instrumented sledgehammer, and passive-wavefield data containing ambient noise. The active-source acquisition included 66 vibroseis and 209 instrumented sledgehammer source locations. Multiple source impacts were recorded at each source location to enable stacking of the recorded signals. The active-source recordings are provided in terms of both raw, uncorrected units of counts and corrected engineering units of meters per second. For each source impact, the force output from the vibroseis or instrumented sledgehammer was recorded and is provided in both raw counts and engineering units of kilonewtons. The passive-wavefield data include 28 h of ambient noise recorded over two nighttime deployments. The data set is shown to be useful for active-source and passive-wavefield three-dimensional imaging and other subsurface characterization techniques, which include horizontal-to-vertical spectral ratios (HVSRs), multichannel analysis of surface waves (MASW), and microtremor array measurements (MAM).
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Active-Source and Passive-Wavefield 3-Component Nodal Station Measurements at the Garner Valley Downhole Array
Active-source data acquisition included 66 vibroseis and 209 instrumented sledge hammer source locations. Multiple source impacts were recorded at each source location to enable stacking of the recorded signal. The source impacts at each source location have been aligned using cross-correlation, but to provide the most flexibility are provided unstacked (i.e., the signals from each source impact are provided separately). The active-source recordings are provided in terms of both raw, uncorrected units of counts and corrected, engineering units of meters per second. For each source impact, the force output from the vibroseis or instrumented sledge hammer was recorded and is provided in both raw counts and engineering units of kilonewtons. The passive-wavefield data includes 28 hours of ambient noise recorded over two night-time deployments. The passive-wavefield data is provided in raw counts, however, the instrument response files are provided should instrument correction be required in the future. The dataset can be used for active-source and passive-wavefield three-dimensional imaging, as well as other subsurface characterization techniques which include: horizontal-to-vertical spectral ratios, multichannel analysis of surface waves, and microtremor array measurements.
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- Award ID(s):
- 2120155
- PAR ID:
- 10463231
- Publisher / Repository:
- Designsafe-CI
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- Subject(s) / Keyword(s):
- Station and Source Configuration Station Information Passive Wavefield Active Source | Vibroseis (Thumper) | Interior Active Source | Vibroseis (Thumper) | Exterior Active Source | Instrumented Slegehammer | Interior Active Source | Instrumented Slegehammer | Exterior Eqss-Utaustin
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- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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