Enhanced Detection and Location of Microseismic Events Using a Novel Matched Filtering Method
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Abstract
Summary A new Matched Filtering Algorithm is proposed for detecting microseismic events recorded by downhole monitoring of hydraulic fracturing. This method requires a set of well-located template (‘parent’) events, and representative spatial distribution of the recorded microseismicity. Detection and extraction of ‘child’ events are based on stacked, multi-channel cross-correlation of the continuous waveform data using the parent events as reference signals. The location of a child event relative to its parent is determined using an automated process, by rotation of the multi-component waveforms into the ray-centered co-ordinates of the parent and maximizing the energy of the stacked amplitude envelope within a search volume around the parent’s hypocentre. Relative magnitude of the child event is obtained automatically using the ratio of stacked envelope peak with respect to its parent. A real-data example using microseismic monitoring data from an open-hole slickwater hydraulic fracture treatment in western Canada demonstrates that a sparse set of parents yields a significant (more than fourfold increase) in the number of located events compared with the original catalog Relative locations obtained using this approach provide more easily interpretable spatio-temporal patterns of the distribution of microseismicity, which can then be incorporated into the assessment of the stimulation program.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".