Why You See What You See Looking down at an Underground Explosion

摘要

The possibility of using computerized analyses of aerial images of the ground zero area to construct a three-dimensional quantitative picture of the spall and slapdown process resulting from contained nuclear explosions is discussed. It may then be possible to utilize this three-dimensonal picture of the surface motion to construct a model of the underlying geological structure in a manner analogous to refraction profiling. In such a manner, this data resource may prove to be of great value for dealing with these problems. (ERA citation 81:026102)