Directional performance of an algorithm used to locate microseismic events in underground mines
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Locating local, low-intensity earthquakes, also referred to as microseismic events, in the vicinity of an underground mine is an important problem for both mine safety and mine planning. A microseismic event produces a finite time-duration acoustic signal that may have a small time-bandwidth product and passively locating such an event is a challenging task. Here a localization algorithm is described that hypothesizes a source location and aligns the sensor signals by removing the propagation delay for that hypothesized location. The hypothesized source location with the maximum energy, calculated from the sum of the aligned signals, is the estimate of the source position. This paper extends the algorithm to include signal weighting. An expression for the variance of location error is presented for the weighted algorithm and compared with the unweighted variance. A unique aspect of the variance expression is that it provides the performance in a direction specified by a three dimensional unit vector, e⃗, which is very useful for applications that restrict operations to tunnel structures, such as mining seismic and in-building acoustics.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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