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Seismic Denoising meets Generative Image Models

December 18, 2023
Seismic Denoising meets Generative Image Models
'Santa Claus Looking at a Seismic Trace on a Monitor' created by DALL-E 3

What’s the connection between novel generative image models and seismic denoising? Daniele Trappolini from Sapienza Università di Roma has led an effort to utilise these exciting techniques for seismological applications. This blog post will give a beginner-friendly introduction to generative modelling and ‘diffusion’ models, before explaining how Daniele and his group have been ...[Read More]

What is Distributed Acoustic Sensing?

December 2, 2023
What is Distributed Acoustic Sensing?
OpenAI - DALL E illustration

In this blog we give a succinct introduction to Distributed Acoustic Sensing for the starting seismologist, or the interested reader. The blog is by no means a complete overview and serves as a starting point for you to understand DAS and get started with the data. It was written by SM ECS members Ana Nap and Katinka Tuinstra.   By now, Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) is a pretty widely kn ...[Read More]

Geo-Movie Cup 2023 – vote for your favourite!

October 13, 2023
Geo-Movie Cup 2023 – vote for your favourite!

Next week, brace yourselves for the grand unveiling of the most eagerly anticipated film competition of the year by the EGU Seismology ECS team! Never mind the prestigious Oscars and Golden Globes, the Geo-Movie Cup 2023 will be on level par in terms of movie eliteness. In a world saturated with endless sequels, Disney live action remakes and colossal franchise blockbusters, there exists a sub-gen ...[Read More]

Statistical earthquake forecasting – is that possible?

September 25, 2023
Statistical earthquake forecasting – is that possible?

This blog post will take you through what can and can’t be done with statistical earthquake forecasting. We are happy to have it explained by Dr. Leila Mizrahi, who is a postdoctoral researcher at the Swiss Seismological Service (SED) at ETH Zürich. Let’s get started! “My research topic is earthquake forecasting” – “Oh, really, I thought that’s not possible! So, when is the next one going to ...[Read More]