Articles | Volume 13, issue 10
https://doi.org/10.5194/se-13-1569-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/se-13-1569-2022
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21 Oct 2022
Research article |  | 21 Oct 2022

Comparison of straight-ray and curved-ray surface wave tomography approaches in near-surface studies

Mohammadkarim Karimpour, Evert Slob, and Laura Valentina Socco

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Near-surface characterisation is of great importance. Surface wave tomography (SWT) is a powerful tool to model the subsurface. In this work we compare straight-ray and curved-ray SWT at near-surface scale. We apply both approaches to four datasets and compare the results in terms of the quality of the final model and the computational cost. We show that in the case of high data coverage, straight-ray SWT can produce similar results to curved-ray SWT but with less computational cost.