- journal_title：The Leading Edge
- Contributor：I. Panea ; V. Mocanu ; C. Iacob
- Publisher：Society of Exploration Geophysicists
- Date：2012-12-01
- Format：text/html
- Language：en
- Identifier：10.1190/tle31121484.1
- journal_abbrev：The Leading Edge
- issn：1070-485X
- volume：31
- issue：12
- firstpage：1484
- section：Special section: Passive seismic and microseismic—Part 2
id="p-1">Surface waves, considered to be the most difficult type of coherent noise present on land seismic reflection data, carry useful information regarding S-wave velocities. The advantage of analyzing surface waves is that they are recorded using vertical component geophones but provide information that is usually obtained from seismic data recorded with three-component geophones. Nowadays, active and passive surface waves are analyzed to determine the distribution of the S-wave velocities in the near surface. One application of near-surface velocities is for determining microseismic event locations, especially for surface and shallow well geophone arrays.