The course aims at providing the Student with the basic knowledge required to design and perform seismic surveys with the main methods commonly employed for near-surface applications (depth approximately ≦100 m) and of interest for the post-graduate activities of a first level graduate in Earth or Environmental Sciences. The course focusses therefore on refraction seismics, surface waves and cross-well tomography methods to teach the Student how to perform data acquisition, processing and inversion/interpretation also through training on the field and in laboratory.
D1 - Knowledge and understanding: the Student shall know the fundamentals of the refraction seismics, surface waves and transmission tomography methods and understand the basic principles of data acquisition, processing and inversion/interpretation.
D2 - Applying knowledge and understanding: the Student shall be able to design the survey and perform data acquisition, processing, inversion/interpretation.
D3 - Making judgements: the Student shall be able to select optimum methods and parameters (for data acquisition and processing/inversion) to achieve the survey’s objectives.
D4 - Communication skills: the Student shall be able to illustrate fundamentals of the methods and experimental work with correct technical language.
TO verify objectives D2/3/4, at the end of the course the Student shall write a report on the experimental work done with one of the techniques utilized in field/lab training.
D5 – Learning skills: the Student will gain competence that will enable study and comprehension of more complex problems dealt by advanced courses of the sector.

introductory courses of mathematics and physics

4 units with labs, oral examination and written report. M1 Seismic Data acquisition for near surface applications: characteristics of instruments, seismic sources and sensors, survey design and implementation, laboratories and field work in selected test sites to complete seismic refraction, surface waves and tomographic surveys, M2 Data processing: quality control and editing , amplitude analysis and correction, spectral analysis and numerical filtering. Laboratory of data processing on synthetic and field data M3 Numerical simulation: modeling experiments and analysis of synthetic data M4 Inversion: application of inverse methods to seismic refraction, surface waves and transmission tomography data

Yilmaz, Özdoğan. Engineering Seismology with Applications to Geotechnical Engineering. Investigations in Geophysics, No. 17. Tulsa, OK: Society of Exploration Geophysicists, The international society of applied geophysics, 2015.
ISBN: 978-1560803294

laboratory of data acquisition through field experiments and processing/interpretation on workstation. Lessons to introduce the seismic methods used in the laboratories

oral with at least one question for each of the lab units + written report about one of the topics/experiments presented in the laboratories

This course explores topics closely related to one or more goals of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (SDGs)