Data and scripts for: Can Telecommunication Dark Fiber Sense Ground Deformation? Mechanical Coupling Governs Strain Observability

This dataset provides data and Python scripts supporting “Can Telecommunication Dark Fiber Sense Ground Deformation? Mechanical Coupling Governs Strain Observability” by Cheng-Cheng Zhang and Bin Shi.

The tables contain elementary cable-test peak strains, integrated extension and strain-transfer curves from controlled cable tests, laser-target displacements from a large-scale soil model, smoothed OFDR strain profiles from four soil-shear sensing configurations, paired strain-response ratios and sensitivity results, and processed BOTDR profiles and metrics from installed-cable transverse loading. Supplementary tables include selected late soil profiles, field comparison curves, and a separate 1-m-sampled field diagnostic.

The plotting scripts reproduce the data panels of Figures 1–4 and the data figures S2–S5 as PDF, SVG and PNG files. The scripts use the supplied processed tables directly. The deposit comprises 23 UTF-8 CSV tables, plotting annotation values, plotting scripts, a data dictionary and installation instructions. Strain, displacement and optical-distance units are documented in the data dictionary.