SurfSeis
MASW Software

MASW analysis method

All MASW components

Miller et al., 1999; Park et al., 2007; Miller et al., 2008 Ivanov, 2022

Field Parameters

Park et al., 1999; Ivanov et al., 2008

Dispersion curve imaging--Active source(s)

Song et al., 1989; Park et al., 1998; Ivanov et al., 2005b; Xia et al., 2007; Luo et al., 2008

Dispersion curve imaging--Passive source(s)

Ivanov et al., 2013a; Morton et al., 2019a; Morton et al., 2021; Park et al., 2004; Park et al., 2005a

Inversion

Xia et al., 1999a; Xia et al., 2003; Xia et al., 2004; Ivanov et al., 2006; Ryden and Park, 2006; Ivanov et al., 2016; Ivanov et al., 2019a; Ivanov et al., 2020

Several components

Ivanov et al., 2010c; Ivanov et al., 2011; Ivanov et al., 2013b

Love wave, HRLRT, and Multi-mode

Ivanov et al., 2017a; Ivanov et al., 2017b

Map bedrock

Miller et al., 1999

Dams and Levees

Ivanov et al., 2004; Ivanov et al., 2005a; Ivanov et al., 2005b; Ivanov et al., 2006b; Ivanov et al., 2007; Ivanov et al., 2009; Ivanov et al., 2015; Ivanov et al., 2017a

Map fault zones

Ivanov et al., 2006a

Compare to downhole well data

Xia et al., 1999b; Xia et al., 2000

On pavements

Ryden and Park, 2004

Underwater

Kaufmann et al., 2005; Park et al., 2005b

Arctic ice sheets

Tsoflias et al., 2008

Tunnels and Caverns

Ivanov et al., 2013a; Sloan et al. 2015; Schwenk et al., 2016; Morton et al., 2020; Morton et al., 2021

Quality factor (Q, aka damping ratio)

Xia et al., 2002; Ivanov et al., 2010a; Xia et al., 2012; Ivanov et al., 2014, Feigenbaum et al., 2016

Refraction inversion models

Ivanov et al., 2006c; Ivanov et al., 2010b; Schwenk et al., 2012

Highlighted references are available for download courtesy of SEG (www.seg.org). If a publication is not offered for download, then this is likely due to following redistribution policies by other publishers.

Feigenbaum, D. Z., Ivanov, J., R. D. Miller, S. L. Peterie, and S. L. C. Morton, 2016, Near-surface Qs estimations using multi-channel analysis of surface waves (MASW) and the effect of non-fundamental mode energy on Q-estimation: An example from Yuma Proving Ground, Arizona: SEG Technical Program Expanded Abstracts 2016, pp. 4971-4976. [available online]

Ivanov, J., 2022, Surface wave methods, in Anna Bondo Medhus and L. Klinkby, eds., Engineering Geophysics (1st ed.): CRC Press. [available online]

Ivanov, J., C. B. Park, R. D. Miller, and J. H. Xia, 2005, Analyzing and filtering surface-wave energy by muting shot gathers: Journal of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics, 10, 307-321.

Ivanov, J., R. D. Miller, R. F. Ballard, J. B. Dunbar, and J. Stefanov, 2004, Interrogating levees using seismic methods in southern Texas: 74th Annual International Meeting, SEG, Technical Program Expanded Abstracts, 23, 1413-1416. [available online]

Ivanov, J., R. D. Miller, R. F. Ballard, J. B. Dunbar, and S. Smullen, 2005a, Time-lapse seismic study of levees in southern Texas: 75th Annual International Meeting, SEG, Technical Program Expanded Abstracts, 1121-1124. [available online]

Ivanov, J., C. B. Park, R. D. Miller, and J. H. Xia, 2005b, Analyzing and filtering surface-wave energy by muting shot gathers: Journal of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics, 10, 307-321.

Ivanov, J., R. D. Miller, P. Lacombe, C. D. Johnson, and J. W. Lane, 2006a, Delineating a shallow fault zone and dipping bedrock strata using multichannal analysis of surface waves with a land streamer: Geophysics, 71, A39-A42. [available online]

Ivanov, J., R. D. Miller, N. Stimac, R. F. Ballard, J. B. Dunbar, and S. Smullen, 2006b, Time-lapse seismic study of levees in southern New Mexico: 76th Annual International Meeting, SEG, Technical Program Expanded Abstracts, 3255-3259. [available online]

Ivanov, J., R. D. Miller, J. H. Xia, D. Steeples, and C. B. Park, 2006c, Joint analysis of refractions with surface waves: An inverse solution to the refraction-traveltime problem: Geophysics, 71, R131-R138. [available online]

Ivanov, J., Xia, J., and Miller, R. D., 2006d, Optimizing Horizontal-Resolution Improvement of the MASW Method. Symposium on the Application of Geophysics to Engineering and Environmental Problems, 19(1), 1128-1134. [available online]

Ivanov, J., R. D. Miller, J. B. Dunbar, J. W. Lane, and S. Smullen, 2007, Interrogating Levees in Texas, New Mexico, and New Orleans Using Various Seismic Methods: Symposium on the Application of Geophysics to Engineering and Environmental Problems, 20, 69-81.

Ivanov, J., R. D. Miller, and G. Tsoflias, 2008, Some Practical Aspects of MASW Analysis and Processing: Symposium on the Application of Geophysics to Engineering and Environmental Problems, 21, 1186-1198.

Ivanov, J., C. D. Johnson, J. W. Lane, R. D. Miller, and D. Clemens, 2009, Near-surface evaluation of Ball Mountain Dam, Vermont, using multi-channel analysis of surface waves (MASW) and refraction tomography seismic methods on land-streamer data: 79th Annual International Meeting, SEG, Technical Program Expanded Abstracts, 28, 1454-1458. [available online]

Ivanov, J., R. D. Miller, S. Peterie, and J. B. Dunbar, 2010a, Practical Focusing of Surface-Wave Inversion to Image Levees in Southern New Mexico: Symposium on the Application of Geophysics to Engineering and Environmental Problems, 23, 97-102.

Ivanov, J., R. D. Miller, J. Xia , J. B. Dunbar, and S. L. Peterie, 2010b, Refraction nonuniqueness studies at levee sites using the refraction-tomography and JARS methods; in in R. D. Miller, J. D. Bradford and K. Holliger, eds., Advances in Near-Surface Seismology and Ground-Penetrating Radar: Society of Exploration Geophysicists, 15, 327-338.

Ivanov, J., R. D. Miller, J. Xia, and S. Peterie, 2010c, Multi-mode inversion of multi-channel analysis of surface waves (MASW) dispersion curves and high-resolution linear radon transform (HRLRT): 80th Annual International Meeting, SEG, Technical Program Expanded Abstracts, 29, 1902-1907. [available online]

Ivanov, J., R. D. Miller, S. Peterie, C. Zeng, J. Xia, and T. Schwenk, 2011, Multi-channel analysis of surface waves (MASW) of models with high shear-wave velocity contrast: 81st Annual International Meeting, SEG, Technical Program Expanded Abstracts, 30, 1384-1390. [available online]

Ivanov, J., B. Leitner, W. T. Shefchik, T. J. Schwenk, and S. L. Peterie, 2013a, Evaluating hazards at salt cavern sites using multichannel analysis of surface waves: The Leading Edge, 32, 289-305. [available online]

Ivanov, J., T. J. Schwenk, R. D. Miller, and S. Peterie, 2013b, Dispersion-curve imaging nonuniqueness studies from multi-channel analysis of surface waves (MASW) using synthetic seismic data: SEG Technical Program Expanded Abstracts 2013, 1794-1800. [available online]

Ivanov, J., R. D. Miller, S. L. Peterie, and G. Tsoflias, 2014, Near-surface Qs and Qp estimations from Rayleigh waves using multi-channel analysis of surface waves (MASW) at an Arctic ice-sheet site, SEG Technical Program Expanded Abstracts 2014, 2006-2012. [available online]

Ivanov, J., R. D. Miller, S. L. Peterie, R. F. Ballard, Jr., and J. B. Dunbar, 2015, Revisiting levees in southern Texas using Love-wave multi-channel analysis of surface waves (MASW) with the high-resolution linear radon transform (HRLRT): SEG Technical Program Expanded Abstracts 2015, p. 2211-2217. [available online]

Ivanov, J., G. Tsoflias, R. D. Miller, S. Peterie, and S. Morton, 2016, Impact of density information on Rayleigh surface wave inversion results: Journal of Applied Geophysics. [available online from Elsevier]

Ivanov, J., R. D. Miller, D. Feigenbaum, S. L. C. Morton, S. L. Peterie, and J. B. Dunbar, 2017, Revisiting levees in southern Texas using Love-wave multichannel analysis of surface waves with the high-resolution linear Radon transform: Interpretation, Vol. 5, Issue 3 (August 2017). [available online]

Ivanov, J., R. D. Miller, D. Z. Feigenbaum, and J. T. Schwenk, 2017, Benefits of using the high-resolution linear radon transform (HRLRT) with the multi-channel analysis of surface waves (MASW) method: SEG Technical Program Expanded Abstracts 2017, pp. 2647-2653. (September 2017). [available online]

Ivanov, J., R. D. Miller, A. M. Hoch, S. L. Peterie, and S. L. Morton, 2019, Surface wave analysis sensitivity to assumptions in a-priori information: SEG Technical Program Expanded Abstracts 2019, pp. 5030-5034 (August 2019). [available online]

Ivanov, J., R. D. Miller, A. M. Hoch, S. L. Peterie, S. Morton, and D. Borisov, 2020, A unique approach for estimating surface-wave instability and nonuniqueness, SEG Technical Program Expanded Abstracts 2020, 1835-1839. [available online]

Kaufmann, R. D., J. H. Xia, R. C. Benson, L. B. Yuhr, D. W. Casto, and C. B. Park, 2005, Evaluation of MASW data acquired with a hydrophone streamer in a shallow marine environment: Journal of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics, 10, 87-98.

Luo, Y. H., J. H. Xia, R. D. Miller, Y. X. Xu, J. P. Liu, and Q. S. Liu, 2008, Rayleigh-wave dispersive energy imaging using a high-resolution linear Radon transform: Pure and Applied Geophysics, 165, 903-922.

Miller, R. D., J. Xia, C. B. Park, and J. M. Ivanov, 1999, Multichannel analysis of surface waves to map bedrock: The Leading Edge, 18, 1392-1396. [available online]

Miller, R. D., J. Xia, C. B. Park, and J. M. Ivanov, 2008, Back Page - The history of MASW: The Leading Edge, 27, 568. [available online]

Morton, S. L., J. Ivanov, and R. D. Miller, 2019, Selective-window processing for optimized surface wave imaging of passive data: SEG Technical Program Expanded Abstracts 2019, pp. 5035-5039. (August 2019). [available online]

Morton, S. L., J. Ivanov, R. D. Miller, and R. L. Parsons, 2020, Characterizing a physical model of a collapsing void using time-lapse surface-wave analysis, SEG Technical Program Expanded Abstracts 2020, 1935-1939. [available online]

Morton, S. L., J. Ivanov, S. L. Peterie, R. D. Miller, and A. J. Livers-Douglas, 2021, Passive multichannel analysis of surface waves using 1D and 2D receiver arrays: Geophysics, 86, EN63-EN75. [available online]

Park, C. B., R. D. Miller, and J. H. Xia, 1998, Imaging dispersion curves of surface waves on multi-channel record: SEG Technical Program Expanded Abstracts 1998, p. 1377-1380. [available online]

Park, C. B., R. D. Miller, and J. H. Xia, 1999, Multichannel analysis of surface waves: Geophysics, 64, 800-808. [available online]

Park, C. B., R. D. Miller, D. Laflen, C. Neb, J. Ivanov, B. Bennett, and R. Huggins, 2004, Imaging dispersion curves of passive surface waves: 74th Annual International Meeting, SEG, Expanded Abstracts, 23, 1357-1360. [available online]

Park, C. B., R. D. Miller, N. Ryden, J. Xia, and J. Ivanov, 2005a, Combined use of active and passive surface waves: Journal of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics, 10, 323-334.

Park, C. B., R. D. Miller, J. Xia, J. Ivanov, G. V. Sonnichsen, J. A. Hunter, R. L. Good, R. A. Burns, and H. Christian, 2005b, Underwater MASW to evaluate stiffness of water-bottom sediments: The Leading Edge, 24, 724-728. [available online]

Park, C. B., R. D. Miller, J. H. Xia, and J. Ivanov, 2007, Multichannel analysis of surface waves (MASW)--active and passive methods: The Leading Edge, 26, 60-64. [available online]

Ryden, N., and C. B. Park, 2004, Surface waves in inversely dispersive media: Near Surface Geophysics, 2, 187-197.

Ryden, N., and C. B. Park, 2006, Fast simulated annealing inversion of surface waves on pavement using phase-velocity spectra: Geophysics, 71, R49-R58.

Schwenk, J. T., R. D. Miller, J. Ivanov, S. D. Sloan, and J. R. McKenna, 2012, Joint Shear-Wave Analysis Using MASW and Refraction Traveltime Tomography: 82nd Annual International Meeting, SEG, Technical Program Expanded Abstracts. [available online]

Schwenk, J. T., S. D. Sloan, J. Ivanov, and R. D. Miller, 2016, Surface-wave methods for anomaly detection: Geophysics, 81, EN29-EN42. [available online]

Sloan, S. D., S. L. Peterie, R. D. Miller, J. Ivanov. J. T. Schwenk, J. R. McKenna, 2015, Detecting clandestine tunnels using near-surface seismic techniques: Geophysics, v. 80, no 5, p. EN127-EN135, 8 figs [available online]

Song, Yi-Yung, Castagna, John P., Black, Ross A., and Knapp, Ralph W., 1989, Sensitivity of Near-Surface Shear-Wave Velocity Determination from Rayleigh and Love Waves: SEG Technical Program Expanded Abstracts 1989, p. 509-512. [available online]

Tsoflias, G. P., J. Ivanov, S. Anandakrishnan, and R. D. Miller, 2008, Use of Active Source Seismic Surface Waves in Glaciology: Symposium on the Application of Geophysics to Engineering and Environmental Problems, 21, 1240-1243.

Xia, J., R. D. Miller, and C. B. Park, 1999a, Estimation of near-surface shear-wave velocity by inversion of Rayleigh waves: Geophysics, 64, 691-700. [available online]

Xia, J., R. D. Miller, C. B. Park, Hunter, J.A., and Harris, J.B., 1999b, Evaluation of the MASW technique in unconsolidated sediments: SEG Technical Program Expanded Abstracts 1999, p. 437-440. [available online]

Xia, J., R. D. Miller, C. B. Park, J. A. Hunter, and J. B. Harris, 2000, Comparing shear-wave velocity profiles from MASW with borehole measurements in unconsolidated sediments, Fraser River Delta, B.C., Canada: Journal of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics, 1, 1-13.

Xia, J., R. D. Miller, C. B. Park, and G. Tian, 2002, Determining Q of near-surface materials from Rayleigh waves: Journal of Applied Geophysics, 51, 121-129.

Xia, J. H., R. D. Miller, C. B. Park, and G. Tian, 2003, Inversion of high frequency surface waves with fundamental and higher modes: Journal of Applied Geophysics, 52, 45-57.

Xia, J., Miller, R. D., Chen, C., and Ivanov, J., 2004, Increasing horizontal resolution of geophysical models by generalized inversion. In SEG Technical Program Expanded Abstracts 2004 (Vol. 23, pp. 1437-1440). [available online], [download PDF]

Xia, J. H., Y. X. Xu, and R. D. Miller, 2007, Generating an image of dispersive energy by frequency decomposition and slant stacking: Pure and Applied Geophysics, 164, 941-956.

Xia, J., Y. X. Xu, R. D. Miller, and J. Ivanov, 2012, Estimation of near-surface quality factors by constrained inversion of Rayleigh-wave attenuation coefficients: Journal of Applied Geophysics, 82, 137-144.