Land surface waves (MASW and MicroTremor) applied to cavities detections. Development of an urban area

Tipo de intervención: Onshore
RENNES Agglomeration
Land surface waves (MASW and MicroTremor) applied to cavities detections. Development of an urban area


For a project of an urban extension over an area where underground marl pit quarries were suspected a geophysical campaign have been defined. A test area has been defined in order to select the different geophysical approaches.
SismOcean performed a passive seismic campaign based on the MASW and DCOS processing. These two approaches have been validated and selected to be applied over all the area defined by the project.

  • Onshore seismic surface wave (MASW)
  • Passive acquisition (microtremor measurements)
  • Geological anomaly detection
  • DCOS analysis
  • Karst detection for an urban extension