Seismic Array Processing Techniques. Suboptimal Multichannel Digital Filters

Abstract

The report discusses a new method of generating time-domain filters to extract a signal from digitized multichannel noise. The new filter generation technique is based on the frequency-domain Wiener filter response and uses the mean-square-error of the whole filter set in the transformation back into the time domain. This new, computationally efficient technique was evaluated against a previously used technique, also based on the frequency-domain Wiener filter response. Two different sets of experimental noise data with power spectra specified at 65 frequencies were used in the filter evaluation, and the signal to be detected was assumed to have the same power spectrum as the noise to prevent frequency filtering. For the first noise sample and 37-point long filters, the previous technique gave 0.8 db more error than the optimum frequency-domain filter and the new filtering technique gave 0.5 db more error. For the second noise sample, these respective filters had 1.2 db and 0.9 db more error than the optimum technique.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 28, 1970
Accession Number
AD0865534

Entities

People

  • Hal H. Bybee

Organizations

  • Texas Instruments

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Arrays
  • Classification
  • Commerce
  • Department Of Defense
  • Digital Filters
  • Export Controls
  • Exports
  • Frequency
  • Frequency Domain
  • Frequency Response
  • Governments
  • Power Spectra
  • Security
  • Seismic Arrays
  • Simultaneous Equations
  • Time Domain

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

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  • Speech Processing/Speech Recognition.
  • Statistical inference.