Color display of the localized spectrum

Geophysics ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 65 (4) ◽  
pp. 1330-1340 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Theophanis ◽  
John Queen

This paper develops a new display technique for seismic cross‐sections, called spectral color. The need to visualize frequency information in seismic data is recognized uniformly and often is accomplished through the color display of instantaneous frequency. The spectral content of a reflected event can carry information about the reflecting horizon’s characteristics which will not be resolved in the instantaneous state of the record. Spectral color is devised to overcome the problem of displaying an entire localized spectrum at each time sample and offset of a seismic section. The localized spectrum is calculated with a relatively new time‐frequency representation called the S-transform, which combines a Fourier technique with adaptive windowing in the frequency domain. A color (RGB triplet) based on the localized spectral content is calculated and the pixel is displayed at the appropriate position in the seismic section. As a result, the seismic cross‐section is displayed in an intuitive manner that is much the way we see the world around us. Strongly reflecting or well‐lit objects appear to us as bright, and the color tells us about the frequency content of the reflected energy. Spectral color is applied to ultrasonic laboratory data acquired over a thin anisotropic disk. It reveals a change in color (spectral content) with azimuth where no significant amplitude variation with azimuth was observed. Spectral color is illustrated further by application to a 3-D field data set and is compared to other, more standard, color displays.

Author(s):  
Robert J Marks II

The Fourier transform is not particularly conducive in the illustration of the evolution of frequency with respect to time. A representation of the temporal evolution of the spectral content of a signal is referred to as a time-frequency representation (TFR). The TFR, in essence, attempts to measure the instantaneous spectrum of a dynamic signal at each point in time. Musical scores, in their most fundamental interpretation, are TFR’s. The fundamental frequency of the note is represented by the vertical location of the note on the staff. Time progresses as we read notes from left to right. The musical score shown in Figure 9.1 is an example. Temporal assignment is given by the note types. The 120 next to the quarter note indicates the piece should be played at 120 beats per minute. Thus, the duration of a quarter note is one half second. The frequency of the A above middle C is, by international standards, 440 Hertz. Adjacent notes notes have a ratio of 21/12. The note, A#, for example, has a frequency of 440 × 21/12 = 466.1637615 Hertz. Middle C, nine half tones (a.k.a. semitones or chromatic steps) below A, has a frequency of 440 × 2−9/12 = 261.6255653 Hertz. The interval of an octave doubles the frequency. The frequency of an octave above A is twelve half tones, or, 440 × 212/12 = 880 Hertz. The frequency spacings in the time-frequency representation of musical scores such as Figure 9.1 are thus logarithmic. This is made more clear in the alternate representation of the musical score in Figure 9.2 where time is on the horizontal axis and frequency on the vertical. At every point in time where there is no rest, a frequency is assigned. To make chords, numerous frequencies can be assigned to a point in time. Further discussion of the technical theory of western harmony is in Section 13.1.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hakan Alp ◽  
Okan Tezel ◽  
Denizhan Vardar ◽  
Yeliz İşcan Alp

Abstract Küçükçekmece Lake and surrounding land area play an important role to understand the active tectonism of the southern land area of Istanbul. This study gives the results of a geophysical survey to understand the structural features of the study area. We collected geo-electrical data on the surrounding Küçükçekmece Lake. Totally 14 different VES values were inverted and evaluated variation of resistivity with depth. Additionally, the obtained apparent resistivity cross-sections for 3 profiles of VES points. All of them are interpreted considering geological well data from the study area and previous geophysical studies, which included especially high resolution shallow seismic data and chirp seismic data from the lake and shelf area in the Sea of Marmara close to the lake. The resistivity sections and inverted VES data show that faults cut the recent units and also cause resistivity changes in these units in the land area. These faults are consistent with the orientation of active faults observed from the seismic section on the lake and deforming the lake floor. This data set can be given as geophysical evidence for the existence of faults in the Istanbul land area.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 2582
Author(s):  
Lucas M. Martinho ◽  
Alan C. Kubrusly ◽  
Nicolás Pérez ◽  
Jean Pierre von der Weid

The focused signal obtained by the time-reversal or the cross-correlation techniques of ultrasonic guided waves in plates changes when the medium is subject to strain, which can be used to monitor the medium strain level. In this paper, the sensitivity to strain of cross-correlated signals is enhanced by a post-processing filtering procedure aiming to preserve only strain-sensitive spectrum components. Two different strategies were adopted, based on the phase of either the Fourier transform or the short-time Fourier transform. Both use prior knowledge of the system impulse response at some strain level. The technique was evaluated in an aluminum plate, effectively providing up to twice higher sensitivity to strain. The sensitivity increase depends on a phase threshold parameter used in the filtering process. Its performance was assessed based on the sensitivity gain, the loss of energy concentration capability, and the value of the foreknown strain. Signals synthesized with the time–frequency representation, through the short-time Fourier transform, provided a better tradeoff between sensitivity gain and loss of energy concentration.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 4773
Author(s):  
Qiaoping Tian ◽  
Honglei Wang

High precision and multi information prediction results of bearing remaining useful life (RUL) can effectively describe the uncertainty of bearing health state and operation state. Aiming at the problem of feature efficient extraction and RUL prediction during rolling bearings operation degradation process, through data reduction and key features mining analysis, a new feature vector based on time-frequency domain joint feature is found to describe the bearings degradation process more comprehensively. In order to keep the effective information without increasing the scale of neural network, a joint feature compression calculation method based on redefined degradation indicator (DI) was proposed to determine the input data set. By combining the temporal convolution network with the quantile regression (TCNQR) algorithm, the probability density forecasting at any time is achieved based on kernel density estimation (KDE) for the conditional distribution of predicted values. The experimental results show that the proposed method can obtain the point prediction results with smaller errors. Compared with the existing quantile regression of long short-term memory network(LSTMQR), the proposed method can construct more accurate prediction interval and probability density curve, which can effectively quantify the uncertainty of bearing running state.


Author(s):  
Mathias Stefan Roeser ◽  
Nicolas Fezans

AbstractA flight test campaign for system identification is a costly and time-consuming task. Models derived from wind tunnel experiments and CFD calculations must be validated and/or updated with flight data to match the real aircraft stability and control characteristics. Classical maneuvers for system identification are mostly one-surface-at-a-time inputs and need to be performed several times at each flight condition. Various methods for defining very rich multi-axis maneuvers, for instance based on multisine/sum of sines signals, already exist. A new design method based on the wavelet transform allowing the definition of multi-axis inputs in the time-frequency domain has been developed. The compact representation chosen allows the user to define fairly complex maneuvers with very few parameters. This method is demonstrated using simulated flight test data from a high-quality Airbus A320 dynamic model. System identification is then performed with this data, and the results show that aerodynamic parameters can still be accurately estimated from these fairly simple multi-axis maneuvers.


Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (13) ◽  
pp. 3725
Author(s):  
Paweł Zimroz ◽  
Paweł Trybała ◽  
Adam Wróblewski ◽  
Mateusz Góralczyk ◽  
Jarosław Szrek ◽  
...  

The possibility of the application of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) in search and rescue activities in a deep underground mine has been investigated. In the presented case study, a UAV is searching for a lost or injured human who is able to call for help but is not able to move or use any communication device. A UAV capturing acoustic data while flying through underground corridors is used. The acoustic signal is very noisy since during the flight the UAV contributes high-energetic emission. The main goal of the paper is to present an automatic signal processing procedure for detection of a specific sound (supposed to contain voice activity) in presence of heavy, time-varying noise from UAV. The proposed acoustic signal processing technique is based on time-frequency representation and Euclidean distance measurement between reference spectrum (UAV noise only) and captured data. As both the UAV and “injured” person were equipped with synchronized microphones during the experiment, validation has been performed. Two experiments carried out in lab conditions, as well as one in an underground mine, provided very satisfactory results.


2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 253-272 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. R. Canagaratna ◽  
J. L. Jimenez ◽  
J. H. Kroll ◽  
Q. Chen ◽  
S. H. Kessler ◽  
...  

Abstract. Elemental compositions of organic aerosol (OA) particles provide useful constraints on OA sources, chemical evolution, and effects. The Aerodyne high-resolution time-of-flight aerosol mass spectrometer (HR-ToF-AMS) is widely used to measure OA elemental composition. This study evaluates AMS measurements of atomic oxygen-to-carbon (O : C), hydrogen-to-carbon (H : C), and organic mass-to-organic carbon (OM : OC) ratios, and of carbon oxidation state (OS C) for a vastly expanded laboratory data set of multifunctional oxidized OA standards. For the expanded standard data set, the method introduced by Aiken et al. (2008), which uses experimentally measured ion intensities at all ions to determine elemental ratios (referred to here as "Aiken-Explicit"), reproduces known O : C and H : C ratio values within 20% (average absolute value of relative errors) and 12%, respectively. The more commonly used method, which uses empirically estimated H2O+ and CO+ ion intensities to avoid gas phase air interferences at these ions (referred to here as "Aiken-Ambient"), reproduces O : C and H : C of multifunctional oxidized species within 28 and 14% of known values. The values from the latter method are systematically biased low, however, with larger biases observed for alcohols and simple diacids. A detailed examination of the H2O+, CO+, and CO2+ fragments in the high-resolution mass spectra of the standard compounds indicates that the Aiken-Ambient method underestimates the CO+ and especially H2O+ produced from many oxidized species. Combined AMS–vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) ionization measurements indicate that these ions are produced by dehydration and decarboxylation on the AMS vaporizer (usually operated at 600 °C). Thermal decomposition is observed to be efficient at vaporizer temperatures down to 200 °C. These results are used together to develop an "Improved-Ambient" elemental analysis method for AMS spectra measured in air. The Improved-Ambient method uses specific ion fragments as markers to correct for molecular functionality-dependent systematic biases and reproduces known O : C (H : C) ratios of individual oxidized standards within 28% (13%) of the known molecular values. The error in Improved-Ambient O : C (H : C) values is smaller for theoretical standard mixtures of the oxidized organic standards, which are more representative of the complex mix of species present in ambient OA. For ambient OA, the Improved-Ambient method produces O : C (H : C) values that are 27% (11%) larger than previously published Aiken-Ambient values; a corresponding increase of 9% is observed for OM : OC values. These results imply that ambient OA has a higher relative oxygen content than previously estimated. The OS C values calculated for ambient OA by the two methods agree well, however (average relative difference of 0.06 OS C units). This indicates that OS C is a more robust metric of oxidation than O : C, likely since OS C is not affected by hydration or dehydration, either in the atmosphere or during analysis.


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