On the use of an externally deployed geophone package on an Ocean Bottom Seismometer |
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Authors: | Jeremy D Duschenes Timothy W Barash Paul J Mattaboni Sean C Solomon |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 02139 Cambridge, MA, USA;(2) Present address: Department of Geology and Geophysics, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 02543 Woods Hole, MA, England;(3) Bullard Laboratory, Madingley Rise, Cambridge, England |
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Abstract: | We describe a recent modification to the MIT Ocean Bottom Seismometer by which the geophones are housed in a separate package that is deployed on the sea floor about 1 m distance from the main unit several hours after the OBS reaches the ocean bottom. Records from deep-sea experiments and shallow-water tests show two improvements over records from geophones housed in the main instrument package. Signals recorded by the external geophones have a much better signal-to-noise ratio because tape recorder noise and instrument vibrations generated by water currents are effectively eliminated. As a result, the overall frequency response of the sensors to ground motion has a demonstrably smoother spectral shape. The second improvement is that the cross coupling of horizontal instrument motion to vertical ground motion is apparently greatly reduced because of the simpler design for the sensor package. |
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