Counterevasion Studies

Abstract

The report summarizes results to date on a study to determine the effectiveness of two methods which may be used to separate interfering seismic events. These techniques have potential value for counterevasion studies, in that they are expected to distinguish underground nuclear explosions hidden in larger earthquakes, and to identify sequential underground nuclear explosions disguised as earthquakes. The techniques are applied to markedly different combinations of interfering waveforms. The complex cepstrum technique separates signals from the same azimuth, whose waveforms and thus spectra are similar. It does so by treating the entire spectrum of the data. The eigenspectrum technique, by contrast, is used to separate signals from different azimuths, with greatly different spectra, and considers the data over a narrow frequency band.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 15, 1973
Accession Number
AD0778956

Entities

People

  • Stephen S. Lane

Organizations

  • Texas Instruments

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Amplitude
  • Cepstrum Technique
  • Convolution
  • Delta Functions
  • Earthquakes
  • Eigenvalues
  • Explosions
  • Filtration
  • Frequency
  • Frequency Bands
  • Frequency Domain
  • Nuclear Explosions
  • Spectra
  • Surface Waves
  • Waveforms
  • Waves

Readers

  • Seismology
  • Systems Analysis and Design