Shallow shear-wave (SV) reflection surveying with distributed acoustic sensing in Zuidbroek, the Netherlands

A field experiment was conducted in Zuidbroek, the Netherlands to compare the performance of a DAS and horizontal-geophone system for shear-wave (SV) reflection surveying. The data were subjected to processing for reflection imaging, including conversion of the geophone data to strain-rate data, to enable such a comparison on migrated-section level. Our findings indicate that DAS straight-fibre data shows a lower-frequency information content, but achieves better reflector continuity than the geophone data due to the more continuous and denser sampling with the DAS system.