Active Geophysical Monitoring: Volume 40(Volume 40 Handbook of Geophysical Exploration: Seismic Exploration)

Active geophysical monitoring is an important new method for studying time-evolving structures and states in the tectonically active Earth's lithosphere. It is based on repeated time-lapse observations and interpretation of rock-induced changes in geophysical fields periodically excited by controlled sources. In this book, the results of strategic systematic development and the application of new technologies for active geophysical monitoring are presented. The authors demonstrate that active monitoring may drastically change solid Earth geophysics, through the acquisition of substantially new information, based on high accuracy and real-time observations. Active monitoring also provides new means for disaster mitigation, in conjunction with substantial international and interdisciplinary cooperation.

Table of Contents:
Part I. General concept and historical review; 1. General concept of active geophysical monitoring; 2. Active monitoring targets; Part II. Theory and technology of active monitoring; 3. Technology of active monitoring; 4. Signal processing and accuracy control in active monitoring; 5. Theory of data analysis and interpretation; Part III. Case histories; 6. Regional active monitoring experiments

About the Author :
Junzo Kasahara received B.S., M.S., and D.Sc. degrees in geophysics from Nagoya University in 1965, 1967, and 1970, respectively. From 1970 to 1986, and then from 1988 to 2004, he was an assistant, associate, and full professor at the University of Tokyo. He worked in marine seismology. During 1974, 1976, and 1979, he was a visiting associate professor at the University of Hawaii. In 1986, he joined Schlumberger Japan as a manager for seismic interpretation and logging tool design. During his academic work, he published three books with the University of Tokyo Press. He was awarded the title of professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo. In 2004, he joined the Tono Geoscience Center as a senior researcher, where he worked on the ACROSS project. Between 2004 and 2008, he served for the extension of the Japan Continental Shelf. Currently, he is the principal investigator of the geothermal project and a visiting professor at the University of Shizuoka. Michael Zhdanov has been a professor at the University of Utah, Utah, United States, since 1993 and has been the director of CEMI since 1995. He received a Ph.D. in 1970 from Moscow State University. He was a professor at the Moscow Academy of Oil and Gas and head of the Department of Deep Electromagnetic Study before moving to the University of Utah. He was awarded an Honorary Diploma of Gauss Professorship by the Göttingen Academy of Sciences, Germany, in 1990 and was elected a full member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences in 1991. He received an Honorary Professorship from the China National Center of Geological Exploration Technology in 1997 and an Honorary Membership Award from the Society of Exploration Geophysicists in 2013. Dr. Zhdanov was elected as a distinguished professor at the University of Utah in 2016. He has been a Fellow of the Electromagnetics Academy since 2002.