SBIR/STTR Research Award
WAVE-DIFFUSION GEOTOMOGRAPHY
Award amount
$49,840Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
1985Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- Terragraf Inc
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- Not reported
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
RESEARCH IS PROPOSED TO DEVELOP ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS AND COMPUTER PROGRAMS TO PERMIT RAPID, HIGH-RESOLUTION (LESS THAN ONE METER) WAVE-DIFFUSION GEOTOMOGRAPHY RECONSTRUCTIONS OF ROCK MASS FRACTURE SYSTEMS AND HYDROLOGIC PROPERTIES. RESEARCH WILL ALSO INVESTIGATE THE MATHEMATICS OF WAVE-DIFFUSION RECONSTRUCTIONS IN THE FREQUENCY DOMAIN. THE ACCURACY AND RESOLUTION OF ALL ALGORITHMS WILL BE EVALUATED USING COMPUTER-GENERATED DATA FROM KNOWN ANOMALIES. THE CARDINAL FOCUS OF THIS RESEARCH PROPOSAL IS TO FIND AN ECONOMICAL AND HIGH-RESOLUTION METHOD TO REMOTELY DEFINE SUBSURFACE ROCK MASS CHARACTERISTICS FOR DEEP CONSTRUCTION AND GROUND WATER MANAGEMENT.
Technology keywords
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