Site velocity structure determination and stratigraphic division are important purposes of microtremor survey, and the precision of dispersion curves is an important factor affecting the accuracy of microtremor survey. In order to obtain more accurate dispersion curve and S-wave velocity structure, this paper proposed a dispersion curve processing method based on hierarchical frequency fusion of seismic interferometry. Analysis was performed on the link between station pair spacing and frequency component of the collected microtremor signal dependability and exploration depth. A mathematical model of station distances and reliable frequencies of the dispersion curves were achieved through a hierarchical relationship between station distances. Then, a fusion criterion was proposed to determine the fusion boundary based on the reliable frequency, and the dispersion curves of station pairs with different distances were fused to obtain the final dispersion curve. Finally, a more accurate velocity structure was obtained through s-wave velocity conversion from shallow layers to deep ones. The method was applied to the microtremor survey of the proposed high-rise building site in Xiamen. The rectangular observation array was arranged, and the dispersion curves were extracted and processed using hierarchical frequency fusion and traditional superimposed averaging method, and the S-wave velocity and stratigraphic structure were obtained. The experimental results show that the S-wave velocity and stratigraphic structure obtained using the hierarchical frequency fusion method are in better agreement with the borehole results than the superimposed averaging method, which shows its effectiveness and application prospect.
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