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The International Monitoring System (IMS) includes a diverse set of seismic arrays with different configurations. These configurations have apertures ranging from less than 1 to more than 25 km and minimum interelement spacings varying from 0.1 to 3.6 kin. This paper presents a scheme for initial beam deployment for this variety of seismic arrays. Beamforming is equivalent to a spatiotemporal bandpass filter of which passband is defined by the minimum and maximum wavenumbers, which are functions of the geometry configuration of the array. Deployment of steered-beams for signal detection is based on the wavenumber resolution of the array, slowness and frequency distributions of seismic phases, and coherence properties of seismic signals and noises among sensors. Within the wavenumber passband, all possible slowness values are determined by the resolution for each frequency band, and those that are outside the range of seismological interest are excluded. The appropriate azimuthal distribution for each selected slowness is determined from the azimuthal resolution. Using this approach, detection beams for each array are rationally deployed in the slowness-azimuth and frequency domain.
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Wang, J. (2002). A Scheme for Initial Beam Deployment for the International Monitoring System Arrays. In: Der, Z.A., Shumway, R.H., Herrin, E.T. (eds) Monitoring the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty: Data Processing and Infrasound. Pageoph Topical Volumes. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-8144-9_6
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