Towards Optimal Information Gain for Judicious Positioning of Sensors in Geophysical Tests

Siddharth S. Parida, Kallol Sett, Puneet Singla

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Abstract

Full waveform inversion is growing in popularity as an alternate technique for geotechnical soil characterization. Intrinsic to such class of methodologies are geophysical tests that yield sensor measurements which are then used in the inversion process. Critical to the success of any such inversion processes is the information that is carried by the sensor measurements. Hence, efforts may be taken to place the sensors in a way that yields maximum information. This paper aims towards optimizing sensor locations in a geophysical experiment by probabilistically exploring the sensitivity of the quantities of interest in the geophysical experiment to the soil parameters and then constructing information maps based on it. Through elaborate illustrations and comparisons, this paper demonstrates that these maps may help in identifying regions of high information and thus may allow for judicious placements of sensors while conducting any geophysical experiments.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationGeotechnical Special Publication
EditorsJinsong Huang, Gordon A. Fenton, Limin Zhang, D. V. Griffiths
PublisherAmerican Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
Pages497-506
Number of pages10
EditionGSP 284
ISBN (Electronic)9780784480717
DOIs
StatePublished - 2017
EventGeo-Risk 2017 - Denver, United States
Duration: Jun 4 2017Jun 7 2017

Publication series

NameGeotechnical Special Publication
NumberGSP 284
Volume0
ISSN (Print)0895-0563

Other

OtherGeo-Risk 2017
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityDenver
Period6/4/176/7/17

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Civil and Structural Engineering
  • Architecture
  • Building and Construction
  • Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology

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