Comparing gravity and gravity gradient surveys

Noise levels in marine and airborne full tensor gravity gradiometer surveys together with conventional land, marine and airborne gravity surveys are estimated and analysed in gridded form, resulting in relations that detail how these different survey systems can be compared analytically. After defining survey parameters including line spacing, speed and instrument bandwidth, the relations estimate the noise levels that result on either grids of gravity (gz) or gravity gradient (Gzz) as a function of the spatial filtering often applied during geological interpretation. Such comparisons are believed to be a useful preliminary guide for survey selection and planning.     

矿集区大地电磁噪声场源分析及噪声特点

结合长江中下游某矿集区大地电磁观测环境,分析大型矿山、通讯基站及其他主要电磁噪声源对视电阻率曲线的影响.依据时域波形将噪声分为脉冲噪声、周期噪声、三角波噪声、方波噪声、阶跃噪声、似充放电模式的三角噪声,便于在后期资料处理过程中针对不同的噪声类型对大地电磁数据进行降噪处理.     

地震资料处理中相对保幅性讨论

地震资料的相对保幅性处理是进行岩性油气藏勘探的基础,目前关于相对保幅性处理业界没有统一的认识,缺乏对关键处理技术的系统分析.笔者根据多年的实际地震资料处理经验,重点分析了相对保幅处理的难点,提出相对保幅处理的几项判断标准,并以此标准对振幅处理、噪声压制和提高分辨率等处理技术的保幅性进行了分析,这对相对保幅处理具有一定的...     

减小离散误差的时频峰值滤波算法

提出减少时频峰值滤波分段点处阶跃误差的改进方法。经过研究时频峰值滤波在频率调制和时频平面峰值滤波时产生的离散误差以及尺度变换方式,发现分段点处阶跃误差与离散傅里叶变换的长度成反比,且与零点在尺度变换后产生的不确定值有关。提出基于定零点尺度变换的时频峰值滤波,在信号尺度变换时将零点变换到瞬时频率区间上的固定值,使各段时频峰值滤波零点偏移量一致,从而消除分段点处的阶跃误差。仿真实验和实际地震信号时频峰值滤波处理结果表明,改进的时频峰值滤波算法能够有效消减随机噪声,减少分段滤波在分段处的阶跃。     

带乘性噪声系统状态滤波的自适应算法

带乘性噪声系统由于其广泛的适用性,一直成为研究的热点。针对带乘性噪声系统状态最优估计的自适应算法进行研究,探讨在噪声服从平稳正态分布情况下,对未知动态噪声方差阵与观测噪声方差阵的辨识问题。在证明带乘性噪声系统新息在稳态时和线性系统新息有着相似稳定特性的前提下,通过对线性系统辨识方法的改进,完成对带乘性噪声系统噪声方差阵的辨识,并利用新息特性对该方法进行进一步改进,以提高辨识精度;最后通过仿真验证该方法的有效性。     

S-wave velocity images of the Dead Sea Basin provided by ambient seismic noise

Based on passive seismic interferometry applied to ambient seismic noise recordings between station pairs belonging to a small-scale array, we have obtained shear wave velocity images of the uppermost materials that make up the Dead Sea Basin. We extracted empirical Green’s functions from cross-correlations of long-term recordings of continuous data, and measured inter-station Rayleigh wave group velocities from the daily correlation functions for positive and negative correlation time lags in the 0.1–0.5 Hz bandwidth. A tomographic inversion of the travel times estimated for each frequency is performed, allowing the laterally varying 3-D surface wave velocity structure below the array to be retrieved. Subsequently, the velocity-frequency curves are inverted to obtain S-wave velocity images of the study area as horizontal depth sections and longitude- and latitude-depth sections. The results, which are consistent with other previous ones, provide clear images of the local seismic velocity structure of the basin. Low shear velocities are dominant at shallow depths above 3.5 km, but even so a spit of land with a depth that does not exceed 4 km is identified as a salt diapir separating the low velocities associated with sedimentary infill on both sides of the Lisan Peninsula. The lack of low speeds at the sampling depth of 11.5 km implies that there are no sediments and therefore that the basement is near 10–11 km depth, but gradually decreasing from south to north. The results also highlight the bowl-shaped basin with poorly consolidated sedimentary materials accumulated in the central part of the basin. The structure of the western margin of the basin evidences a certain asymmetry both whether it is compared to the eastern margin and it is observed in north–south direction. Infill materials down to ∼8 km depth are observed in the hollow of the basin, unlike what happens in the north and south where they are spread beyond the western Dead Sea shore.     

地震勘探中检波器组合之组内距选择方法探讨

使用相关分析方法可以定量地确定地震勘探中检波器组合的组内距，达到更有效地压制各种随机干扰，从而提高地震记录的信噪比的目的，作者在本文中，利用相关分析的思路，给出了用计算机干扰相关半径定量确定组内距的野外工作方法和数据计算方法，在实施地震施工表明，使用本方法可有效地压制各种随机干扰，达到提高地震记录信噪比的目的。     

强随机噪声条件下时窗类型局部线性化对TFPF技术的影响

为了更广泛地应用时频峰值滤波方法消减地震勘探记录中强随机噪声,本文比较详细地探讨了该方法在应用时需要处理的时窗选取、一个时窗内局部线性化等主要基础技术问题.经过时变时窗的仿真计算,运用多项指标比较,包括整体背景强弱、振幅谱、信噪比、均方误差、有效子波波峰波谷幅值、畸变程度,综合评价出（L₀+L_x）时窗滤波的效果较理想.对于三角波这类简单类型的周期波,其时频峰值滤波效果与边线段平均曲率变化、时窗长度等条件有关,即三角波边线段平均曲率越大,滤波结果的均方误差越大;另外,边线段平均曲率增大时,选取的时窗长度有变小的趋势.总之,在地震勘探中应用时频峰值滤波方法消减强随机噪声时,一方面要合理地选取时窗参数,另一方面时窗参数又不能变化过大,以避免对有效子波波形产生畸变影响.     

Effect of coherent noise on single-station direction of arrival estimation

Polarization analysis of multi-component seismic data is used in both exploration seismology and earthquake seismology. In single-station polarization processing, it is generally assumed that any noise present in the window of analysis is incoherent, i.e., does not correlate between components. This assumption is often violated in practice because several overlapping seismic events may be present in the data. The additional arrival(s) to that of interest can be viewed as coherent noise. This paper quantifies the error because of coherent noise interference. We first give a general theoretical analysis of the problem. A simple mathematical wavelet is then used to obtain a closed-form solution to the principal direction estimated for a transient incident signal superposed with a time-shifted, unequal amplitude version of itself, arriving at an arbitrary angle to the first wavelet. The effects of relative amplitude, arrival angle, and the time delay of the two wavelets on directional estimates are investigated. Even for small differences in angle of arrival, there may be significant error (>10°) in the azimuth estimate.     

Correlation between damage distribution and ambient noise H/V spectral ratio: the SESAME project results

In the framework of the SESAME project one of the tasks was the compilation of all available ambient noise measurements within urban environments affected by historical or/and recent strong earthquakes in Europe. The aim of such a task was to give an answer to the question; “How does horizontal-to-vertical ambient noise spectral ratio compare with damage in modern cities?”. For this purpose five European urban areas, namely, Angra do Heroismo (Portugal), Fabriano and Palermo (Italy), Thessaloniki and Kalamata (Greece) were selected for which spatial damage information was available either in terms of modified Mercalli intensity or in EMS98 damage grades. The geological setting of the examined sites as well as the causative earthquakes are satisfactorily known. Ambient noise recordings compiled for all examined sites have been homogeneously processed by a technique developed and agreed upon SESAME project. Using a standard multivariate statistical analysis, namely, factor analysis and canonical correlation, the horizontal-to-vertical ambient noise spectral ratio (HVNSR) is correlated with damage pattern observed within examined urban areas. Results show that, in some cases (Thessaloniki, Palermo), the HVNSR seems to be able to differentiate between areas previously shown to be associated with higher damage. In other cases however (Angra do Heroismo, Fabriano, Kalamata), the correlation is not statistically significant indicating thus the complex character of the parameters involved, implying that currently there is no a straightforward way that a value of HVNSR can correctly predict the extent to which a given region will be associated with increased damage.