EGU24-17890, updated on 11 Mar 2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu24-17890
EGU General Assembly 2024
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The mobile Finnish Seismic Instrument Pool

Roméo Courbis1, Gregor Hillers1, Emilia Koivisto2, Päivi Haapanala1, Ilmo Kukkonen2, Yinshuai Ding2, Thomas Fordell3, Suvi Heinonen5, Niina Junno1, Anssi Juntunen1, Kari Komminaho1, Elena Kozlovskaya6, Jussi Leveinen4, Kari Moisio6, Jyri Näränen9, Tahvo Oksanen1, Pietari Skyttä8, Eija Tanskanen7, and Timo Tiira1
Roméo Courbis et al.
  • 1Institute of Seismology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
  • 2Department of Geosciences and Geography, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
  • 3VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Espoo, Finland
  • 4Aalto University, Espoo, Finland
  • 5GTK, Espoo, Finland
  • 6Oulu Mining School, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
  • 7Sodankylä Geophysical Observatory, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
  • 8University of Turku, Turku, Finland
  • 9Finnish Geospatial Research Institute, National Land Survey, Espoo, Finland

We report on establishing the Finnish mobile seismic instrument pool that is owned and operated by seven Finnish academic and research institutions. The pool infrastructure is funded by the Research Council of Finland, through the FLEX-EPOS project and under the FIN-EPOS umbrella. It is financing the build-up stage and started in 2021 with an end in 2024. By then the seismic instrumentation is anticipated to include 46 Güralp broadband seismometers, 5 Güralp accelerometers, and 1197 and 70 Geospace and SmartSolo self-contained geophone units, respectively. It is making this probably the largest coherent mobile seismic instrument pool in Europe in the public sector. The pool supports domestic and international collaborative projects of temporary deployments to enhance data-driven subsurface and environmental applications. Those deployments are for active or passive experiments and can last a few days up to a few years. The acquisition of such pool is motivated and facilitated by the advent of efficient data storage and transmission and powerful computing systems; progress in the understanding of the seismic wavefield coupled with the development of new types of analysis techniques and algorithms; and the manufacturing of sensitive, affordable data-dense sensor systems. Despite these game-changing and promising developments, the access to many seismic sensors for large-N deployments is not pervasive. Even in developed countries, it is challenging for a single institution to acquire and maintain a sufficiently large mobile pool of instruments and ensure sustainable data production and distribution. Our report on the equipment, facilities, ownership, and governance structure, project management, and data systems is essential background information for the access to and utilization of the pool instruments, and the interaction with the support community. A discussion about best practices for establishing and maintaining a mobile pool infrastructure can benefit from our experience of building such an extensive public seismic infrastructure from the ground up, and it provides relevant information for communities considering similar research infrastructure projects. Among the many challenges and opportunities associated with establishing effective pool management and operations, we highlight the lack of a coherent community protocol to store, find, disseminate, and analyze the associated large datasets. The Finnish mobile seismic instrument pool actively engages with ORFEUS/EIDA and the Geo-INQUIRE project to contribute to developing community solutions for data discovery and accessibility.

How to cite: Courbis, R., Hillers, G., Koivisto, E., Haapanala, P., Kukkonen, I., Ding, Y., Fordell, T., Heinonen, S., Junno, N., Juntunen, A., Komminaho, K., Kozlovskaya, E., Leveinen, J., Moisio, K., Näränen, J., Oksanen, T., Skyttä, P., Tanskanen, E., and Tiira, T.: The mobile Finnish Seismic Instrument Pool, EGU General Assembly 2024, Vienna, Austria, 14–19 Apr 2024, EGU24-17890, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu24-17890, 2024.

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