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Seismo-Acoustic Meteoroid Observation Recording Database (SMORD): A Global Dataset and Deep-Learning Phase Picker for Meteoroid-Generated Air-to-Ground Coupled Seismic Waves

Eickhoff, Dario 1; Ostermeier, Runa 1; Ritter, Joachim ORCID iD icon 1
1 Geophysikalisches Institut (GPI), Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)

Abstract:

Meteoroids impacting Earth's atmosphere generate acoustic waves that can couple into the ground and can be recorded by dense, globally distributed seismic networks. Thus, these records complement optical and radar observations, especially since seismic stations also operate in cloudy weather conditions and during daytime. However, open datasets that link meteoroid events to labeled seismic waveforms are scarce, limiting the development of automated detectors for meteoroid-induced seismo-acoustic signals. We introduce the Seismo-acoustic Meteoroid Observation Recording Database (SMORD), compiled by cross-referencing public meteoroid catalogs (International Meteor Organization fireball reports; NASA CNEOS fireball catalog) with seismic archives. Continuous waveforms are manually labeled for the first clear meteoroid-related onset of air-to-ground coupled seismic waves using a three-level pick-quality scheme. SMORD v1.0 contains 310 meteoroid events and 3,295 labeled arrivals across a global station set. Using SMORD labels, we train a PhaseNet picker in SeisBench with station-level splits and augmentation. On test data, the model achieves 91% precision and 94% recall at a 0.5 decision threshold (area-under-curve value 0.89), with median absolute timing error of 0.02~s (90% within c. ... mehr


Verlagsausgabe §
DOI: 10.5445/IR/1000198395
Veröffentlicht am 23.10.2026
Originalveröffentlichung
DOI: 10.26443/seismica.v5i2.2551
Cover der Publikation
Zugehörige Institution(en) am KIT Geophysikalisches Institut (GPI)
Publikationstyp Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Publikationsjahr 2026
Sprache Englisch
Identifikator ISSN: 2816-9387
KITopen-ID: 1000198395
Erschienen in Seismica
Verlag McGill University
Band 5
Heft 2
Vorab online veröffentlicht am 03.07.2026
Schlagwörter infrasound, seismology, deep learning, seismoacoustic, database
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