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Boom, crackle, pop: Sounds of Earth’s crust
MIT ERL scientists find the sounds beneath our feet are fingerprints of rock stability. MIT News and several science news websites have featured recent work by ERL members Prof. Matěj Peč, lead author and research scientist Hoagy O. Ghaffari, technical associate Ulrich Mok, graduate student Hilary Chang, and professor emeritus of geophysics Brian Evans. By Jennifer…
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Virtual Hyperspectral Images Using Symmetric Autoencoders
New paper on Arvix by ERL Director Laurent Demanet and collaborators including former ERL postdoc Dr. Pawan Bharadwaj: Virtual Hyperspectral Images Using Symmetric Autoencoders Archisman Bhattacharjee, Pawan Bharadwaj, Laurent Demanet Abstract: Spectral data acquired through remote sensing are invaluable for environmental and resource studies. However, these datasets are often marred by nuisance phenomena such as…
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Learning with real data without real labels: A strategy for extrapolated full-waveform inversion with field data
New paper on full waveform inversion from ERL Director Professor Laurent Demanet, recent alum Dr. Hongyu Sun (now a postdoc at CalTech) and their collaborators at TotalEnergies published in Geophysics Journal International: “Learning with real data without real labels: A strategy for extrapolated full-waveform inversion with field data.” https://doi-org.libproxy.mit.edu/10.1093/gji/ggad330 “Full-waveform inversion (FWI) relies on low-frequency…
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The FluidFlower Validation Benchmark Study for the Storage of CO2
New paper on CO2 Storage from Professor Ruben Juanes of ERL and MIT Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering and co-authors published in Tranport in Porous Media: “The FluidFlower Validation Benchmark Study for the Storage of CO2.” https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11242-023-01977-7 “Successful deployment of geological carbon storage (GCS) requires an extensive use of reservoir simulators for screening, ranking…