AGU26 Session S001: Distributed Fiber-Optic Sensing for Explosion Monitoring, Exploration & Induced Seismicity
Michał Chamarczuk
Dear Colleagues,
We would like to invite the broader distributed fiber-optic sensing community to contribute to Session S001 at the AGU26 Fall Meeting, which will be held in San Francisco, California, 7–11 December 2026.
Session ID: 281241
Section: Seismology
Distributed Fiber-Optic Sensing (DFOS) is rapidly transforming the way we observe the Earth and engineered systems by enabling dense, long-range, and cost-effective measurements over unprecedented spatial scales. This session will highlight the latest advances in Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS), Distributed Temperature Sensing (DTS), Distributed Strain Sensing (DSS), and emerging DFOS technologies for applications spanning security, resource exploration, and environmental monitoring.
We welcome contributions related to:
Earthquake, explosion, and induced seismicity monitoring
Hydrocarbon, geothermal, carbon sequestration, and critical mineral applications
Infrastructure and anthropogenic activity monitoring
Subsurface characterization and time-lapse imaging
Signal detection, phase identification, event location, and magnitude estimation
Machine learning and advanced signal processing
Large-scale data processing and validation with external datasets
Real-time and operational monitoring workflows
Emerging DFOS technologies and field deployments
This year, we are delighted to welcome two outstanding invited speakers:
• Haipeng Li (Stanford University)
Recent
advances in DAS signal processing, machine learning, ambient-noise
methods, full-waveform inversion, and large-scale monitoring
applications, including CO₂ sequestration, groundwater monitoring, and
urban sensing.
• Sara Klaasen (ETH Zürich / Australian National University)
Novel
applications of DAS for submarine and onshore seismic monitoring, event
detection and imaging, with a particular emphasis on monitoring
challenging natural environments such as subglacial volcanic systems and
integrating DAS into next-generation seismic monitoring networks.
These invited presentations will showcase exciting new directions in fiber-optic sensing, ranging from cutting-edge imaging and machine learning techniques to operational monitoring systems in complex natural and engineered environments.
Whether your research is theoretical, methodological, or application-driven, we encourage you to submit an abstract and join what we hope will be an exciting forum for discussing the rapidly expanding capabilities of distributed fiber-optic sensing.
Abstract Submission Deadline: 5 August 2026 (23:59 EDT / 03:59 UTC)
👉 Submit your abstract here
We look forward to seeing you in San Francisco and to many stimulating discussions throughout the meeting.
Warm regards,
Loïc Viens – Los Alamos National Laboratory
G. Eli Baker – Air Force Research Laboratory
Robert W. Porritt – Sandia National Laboratories
Zack Spica – University of Michigan
Michal Chamarczuk – Los Alamos National Laboratory