Focus Section on New Applications for Advanced Optical Seismic Sensing
Distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) has been a tool of seismologists for nearly two decades, revolutionizing high-density seismic sensing, offering new ways to seismically characterize remote and difficult terrain, and finding applications in earthquake science and environmental monitoring.
The rapidly evolving field of optical seismology has added a range of seismic sensing techniques and technologies to improve and complement DAS. These include but are not limited to optical frequency combs; optical interferometry used in integrated fiber-optic sensing; fiber Bragg grating; optical polarimeters for rotational sensing and trends in miniaturization of components as well as improvements in DAS instrumentation and analysis.
SRL invites Focus Section submissions that highlight operational and monitoring applications for DAS, microcomb and other advanced sensing techniques in optical seismology, including monitoring of earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and tsunamis; monitoring of bridges, mining and construction sites, and urban infrastructure; seismic network application and integration on the seafloor; hydrodynamics and precipitation, hydrocarbon, geothermal and CO2 monitoring; meteorological observation; permafrost and glacial characterization and monitoring; DAS integration with earthquake early warning systems; and new DAS datasets and optical sensing software available to the seismological community.
Deadline for Submission: February 2027
Articles accepted to this SRL Focus Section will be published online soon after acceptance and collectively in print. Papers will be reviewed as they are received and published online prior to the print issue.
In preparing manuscripts, authors must follow the SRL author guidelines at www.seismosoc.org/publications/srl-authorsinfo/. Papers must be submitted via the SRL online submission system (SRL online submission system (www.editorialmanager.
Please address questions about scientific issues to SRL Editor-in-Chief Allison Bent at srleditor@seismosoc.org. Submission-related questions should be addressed to the SRL Editorial Office at srl@seismosoc.org.