Re: [gnu-soc] GNU Behistun Proposal

[Giuseppe Scrivano]

Hi Christopher,

can you please send the diff against
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/soc-projects/soc-projects/ideas-2019.html
 ?

Thanks,
Giuseppe

"Christopher Dimech" <address@hidden> writes:

> GNU Behistun Proposal for Summer of Code
>
> The GNU Behistun Package is intended to provide a set of tools for computing 
> the hidden subsurface properties of the earth using a technique knows as 
> Seismic Tomography. Specifically, Seismic Tomography is a geological mapping 
> technique that uses propagating acoustic waves that originate from vibrations 
> elsewhere. Propagating acoustic waves are sound waves of energy that are 
> produced 
> by earthquakes, anthropogenic vibrations, or background motion.
>
> Designed to have full 3D tomographic inversion capability, GNU Behistun 
> provides the possibility for planning urban underground infrastructure
> by overcoming challenges due to geologic complexities. For instance,
> if the data is of good quality, the subsurface mapping technique can be 
> resolved well enough to indicate weak zones in the bedrock, represented by 
> low-velocity structures in the tomographic results. 
>
> Besides urban geological subsurface mapping, the software can have important 
> applications towards disaster preparedness and mitigation. The same technique 
> can also be used to map the subsurface properties of other planets (e.g., of 
> the Moon and Mars) and the interior of stars, particularly of our Sun.
>
> The package is especially looking for technical work to help with the 
> underlying 
> mathematical requirements, particularly the finite difference approximations 
> used to describe seismic wave propagation in the subsurface. The 
> approximations
> are partial differential equations containing spatial and temporal 
> derivatives. 
>
> Two steps are required in order to build the corresponding computational 
> scheme. 
> The use of finite differences implies that computations are to be thought of 
> as local: the arrival time at a given grid-point only depends on arrival 
> times 
> at its neighbours and the local values of slowness. In the first step, this 
> local computation must be designed. The second step will address the  order 
> in which arrival times are computed, i.e., how do we propagate computations?
>
> Work on GNU Behistun provides two possibilities that are available to two 
> student.
> One student can focus on the first step (i.e., the local computation), 
> whereas 
> another student can work on the propagation aspects of the arrival time 
> computations.   
>
> Help will be provided for producing the first alpha version for GNU Behistun.
>
> ---------------------
> Christopher Dimech
> Chief Administrator - Naiad Informatics - GNU Project (Geocomputation)
> - Geophysical Simulation
> - Geological Subsurface Mapping
> - Disaster Preparedness and Mitigation
> - Natural Resource Exploration and Exploitation
> - Free Software Advocacy