A~tract--The tasks for automated epicenter determination in the Bochum University Germany (BUG) small array are subdivided for different signal-processing modules that utilize knowledge-based approaches. The modules are designed for complementary advantages to yield best system performance in an interdependent architecture. This "bottom-up" solution proceeds from reliable waveform parameters to...

With the acceleration development of oilfield exploration and development, higher requirement for the precision of seismic interpretation is needed for that only higher accuracy of horizon calibration can match reservoir within the scope in the work area more effectively with full well to further lay a solid foundation of fine reservoir calibration which guarantee further fine structure interpr...

Spectral analysis is an important signal processing tool for seismic data. The transformation of a seismogram into the frequency domain is the basis for a significant number of processing algorithms and interpretive methods. However, for seismograms whose frequency content vary with time, a simple 1-D (Fourier) frequency transformation is not sufficient. Improved spectral decomposition in frequ...

ABSTRACT: A phase picking algorithm has been developed for P-wave arrival detection and picking on a 3-component broadband seismogram. The algorithm is based on Wavelet Transform, Akaike Information Criteria (AIC) picker and voting mechanism. The mathematical functions have been used to cut up data into different frequency components and each component with a resolution matched to its scale is ...

The neural network, using an unsupervised generalized Hebbian algorithm (GHA), is adopted to find the principal eigenvectors of a covariance matrix in different kinds of seismograms. We have shown that the extensive computer results of the principal components analysis (PCA) using the neural net of GHA can extract the information of seismic reflection layers and uniform neighboring traces. The ...

This study reviews seismograms from 10 rock-fall events recorded between 1992 and 2001 by the permanent seismological network Sismalp in the French Alps. A new seismic magnitude scale was defined, which allowed us to compare and classify ground-motion vibrations generated by these Alpine rock-falls. Each rock-fall has also been characterized by its ground-motion duration t30 at an epicentral di...

In a recent paper Choy and Richards (1975) have demonstrated that phase-shifted arrivals can introduce systematic travel-time errors due to relative changes in the peak and trough positions of the arrival wavelets. The method they suggest to correct the problem is to cross-correlate an estimated zero-phase-shifted wavelet with the seismogram after all the arrivals have been restored to a zero p...

In this article, we analyze the dynamic characteristics of head wave in multi-layered half-space media models with high-velocity layer or low-velocity layer, and the model with a continuous transition-zone between the crust and the mantle by using synthetic seismogram. It is concluded that the dynamic characteristics of head wave are sensitive to the thickness and velocity of the high-velocity ...

Hough transform neural network is adopted to detect the line pattern of direct wave and the hyperbolic pattern of reflection wave in a one-shot seismogram. We use time difference from point to hyperbola and line as the distance in the pattern detection of seismic direct and reflection waves. This distance calculation makes the parameter learning feasible. One set of parameters represents one pa...