I need help in a seismic refraction experiment

[abdelgowad]

Dear all,
Recently, I did a seismic refraction experiment to study the subsurface soil below a collapsed building. In this study, I put the receivers on one side of the building and shots on the other side. I need help in what software I should use to interpret the acquired data and I will be thankful if someone shares some papers concerning such experiment.
thanks in advance.

[99thpercentile]

It is unclear from your post whether you have sufficient shot locations to even perform a seismic refraction tomography (SRT) survey. What software do you normally use for your SRT surveys? I currently use Rayfract.

https://www.rayfract.com/

Be aware that SRT software will attempt to give you an answer no matter how poor your survey design was. You need to ensure a thorough understanding of the method and survey design so that your interpretation of the results from the software aligns with the physics of the problem. From your description, I would guess that you do not have enough shot locations, and that the shot geometry was poor.

[abdelgowad]

Thank you very much.
I am using the Rayfract but in the Demo version. The option to put the right geometry is inactive.
By the way, in your opinion, what is the minimum number of shots that could be enough to perform a rough SRT??
Thanks

[Pete]

Hi,
How many times you have to stack depends on your source, distance, max depth, receivers, noise etc. you just need to try.
I would suggest to run at least one parallel line just past the house and if possible a cross line. That is a full line where you place the receivers from zero offset densely towards the house to also record reflections. Then move the receivers further away on the line and repeat depending on numbers of geophones and sampling rate.

[hAJET2345]

How did the experiment go? best fence

[99thpercentile]

For SRT, the depth of investigation is approximately 1/5 of the spread length while spatial resolution is approximately 1/2 to 1x the geophone spacing. For short locations, you would typically do three off end shots for each end of the spread and shot locations every 2 to 3 geophone locations along the spread.