Evelyn N. Drake

Mitigating seismic noise with an acoustic blanket— the promise and the challenge

Waterborne seismic noise is a broad category encompassing well-known noises like marine multiples, seismic interference noise, noise emanating from offshore structures and propagating into the marine environment, and even borehole-trapped noise. For several years, we have been studying the potential of bubble curtains for suppressing these types of noises.