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Review of Absolute (inertial) Position Sensors

• Collette, C. et al., Review: inertial sensors for low-frequency seismic vibration measurement (Collette, Janssens, Fernandez-Carmona, et al. 2012)
• Collette, C. et al., Comparison of new absolute displacement sensors (Collette, Janssens, Mokrani, et al. 2012)

{{< figure src="/ox-hugo/collette12_absolute_disp_sensors.png" caption="<span class="figure-number">Figure 1: Dynamic range of several types of inertial sensors; Price versus resolution for several types of inertial sensors" >}}

Accelerometers

Manufacturers	Country
Micromega Dynamics	Belgium
MMF	Germany
PCB	USA
Guralp	UK
Nanometric	Canada
Kistler	Swiss
Beran	UK
Althen	Netherlands

Wireless Accelerometers

• https://micromega-dynamics.com/products/recovib/miniature-vibration-recorder/

Several commercial accelerometers are compared in Table 2 (see (Collette et al. 2011)).

{{< figure src="/ox-hugo/inertial_sensors_characteristics_accelerometers.png" caption="<span class="figure-number">Figure 2: Characteristics of commercially available accelerometers" >}}

Geophones and Seismometers

Manufacturers	Country
Sercel	France
Wilcoxon	USA
Geospace technologies	USA
Ion	USA
Streckeisen	Swiss
Guralp	UK
Nanometric	Canada

(Collette et al. 2011)

{{< figure src="/ox-hugo/inertial_sensors_characteristics_geophone.png" caption="<span class="figure-number">Figure 3: Characteristics of commercially available geophones" >}}

Bibliography

Collette, C, K Artoos, M Guinchard, S Janssens, P Carmona Fernandez, and C Hauviller. 2011. “Review of Sensors for Low Frequency Seismic Vibration Measurement.” CERN.

Collette, C., S. Janssens, P. Fernandez-Carmona, K. Artoos, M. Guinchard, C. Hauviller, and A. Preumont. 2012. “Review: Inertial Sensors for Low-Frequency Seismic Vibration Measurement.” Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 102 (4): 1289–1300. doi:10.1785/0120110223.

Collette, C, S Janssens, B Mokrani, L Fueyo-Roza, K Artoos, M Esposito, P Fernandez-Carmona, M Guinchard, and R Leuxe. 2012. “Comparison of New Absolute Displacement Sensors.” In International Conference on Noise and Vibration Engineering (Isma).