Introduction to this special section: Distributed acoustic sensing

Abstract

Distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) has seen many advances in recent years with many different applications. This special section contains six papers featuring applications that vary from microseismic event detection to subsea applications to surface deployments, fracture characterization, and well irregularity identification. Each paper introduces a unique problem and then poses the use of DAS in an appropriate way to solve the problem. Special sections on DAS are relatively frequent in the literature currently, so these papers are a snapshot of the work done with the technology. We hope you enjoy these publications.