The basic theory can be found in many engineering seismology text books. The following is a brief summary of how BSU implements the method. A highly simplified case is shown in Figure 32
The delay time equation for Shot A to geophone 1 is given by
where is the delay time at shot A,
is the delay time at geophone 1,
, is the horizontal distance between shot A and geophone 1, and
is the observed travel time from shot A to geophone 1. The refractor velocity is
. A complete system becomes, in matrix form, the following:
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or
Equation 24 is the first row of equation 26. Matrix is constructed by a program, bref, such that the first columns correspond to the shots, the other columns the geophones, ending in a last column giving the distance between a shot and receiver.