THE REPRESENTATION OF SEISMIC WAVES IN FREQUENCY-WAVE NUMBER SPACE

Abstract

In seismic discrimination problems one is interested in filtering out information carried in certain waves from noise carried in other waves. With the use of arrays of sensors, this filtering can be performed in space and time. It is quite useful to visualize the filtering in the Fourierconjugate space of wave number and frequency, and this point of view is developed. Most of the report is devoted to an expression of the pertinent facts about the propagation of elastic waves in the earth in terms of the frequency-wave number diagram. The remainder concerns signal and noise models and the interpretation of filtering techniques in frequency-wave number space.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 06, 1964
Accession Number
AD0433611

Entities

People

  • E. J. Kelly Jr.

Organizations

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acoustic Propagation
  • Acoustic Waves
  • Dispersion Relations
  • Doppler Effect
  • Elastic Waves
  • Equations
  • Frequency
  • Love Waves
  • Particles
  • Phase Velocity
  • Plane Waves
  • Rayleigh Waves
  • Seismic Waves
  • Surface Waves
  • Wave Equations
  • Wave Propagation
  • Waves

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Acoustical Oceanography.
  • Atmospheric Science / Meteorology, specifically Wind Wave Turbulence.
  • Theoretical Analysis.

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Space Objects