Advances in Sensors and Sensor Networks for Microseismic Monitoring – Disaster Prevention

Dear Colleagues,

We invite submissions to a Special Issue of the Sensors journal on the topic of “Advances in Sensors and Sensor Networks for Microseismic Monitoring – Disaster Prevention”. Induced seismicity from mining, tunnelling, hydraulic fracturing, and fluid injection projects, including underground coal mining, tunnel excavation, geothermal system, hydrogen and unconventional gas exploitation, and deep wastewater injection, have been documented worldwide. The disasters raised in the induced seismicity include rock burst, coal and gas outburst, gas emission, water inrush, earthquake, ground subsidence, etc. The potential for these attendant seismic hazards has affected both public acceptance, facility design and operation, as well as asset value and reputation. To address these issues, microseismic monitoring has been considered as a most effective tool to understand the disaster evolution process and therefore provide guides on the targeted prevention and control strategies. The challenges here mainly include the development of new technologies in the accuracy of sensors, the optimized deployment of sensor networks, the algorithms of seismic parameters calculation, and the assessment methodologies of seismic hazards.

For this Special Issue, we would like to encourage original contributions regarding recent investigations in terms of the safety issues in the application of microseismic monitoring in the utilization of underground energy and space fields. Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following: microseismic monitoring in field-scale, acoustic emission in laboratory-scale, seismic sensors development and deployment, and seismic hazards assessment and control. It includes all areas related to induced seismicity, such as underground coal mining, tunnel excavation, hydraulic fracturing and fluid injection in the hydrogen and unconventional gas exploitation, and deep wastewater injection. We would also like to invite authors to address the global potential for expanding the technology in one of the above-mentioned areas around the world and to develop specific case studies.

Dr. Wu Cai
Dr. Adam Lurka
Prof. Dr. Anye Cao
Guest Editors

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