Listening to Ice Sheets - Fibre Optic Cables as Seismic Sensors in the Antarctic

• Published in: EAGE GeoTech 2021 Second EAGE Workshop on Distributed Fibre Optic Sensing
• Main Authors: Kendall, M., Brisbourne, Alex, Hudson, T., Kufner, S-K., Butcher, A., Baird, A., Smith, A., Chalari, A., Clarke, A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers 2021
• Subjects: Antarctic; The Antarctic; Austral; West Antarctic Ice Sheet; Rutford; Rutford Ice Stream; Skytrain Ice Rise; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/529723/; https://www.earthdoc.org/content/papers/10.3997/2214-4609.202131076

The use of fibre as a Distributed Acoustic Sensor (DAS) is a recently developed technology with enormous potential, and, until recently, never tested in Antarctica. Here we show how DAS methods can be used to record icequakes, and to interrogate the internal properties of ice using seismic refractio...