Rapid construction of equivalent sources using wavelets

Geophysics ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 75 (3) ◽  
pp. L51-L59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yaoguo Li ◽  
Douglas W. Oldenburg

We have developed a fast algorithm for generating an equivalent source by using fast wavelet transforms based on orthonormal, compactly supported wavelets. We apply a 2D wavelet transform to each row and column of the coefficient matrix and subsequently threshold the transformed matrix to generate a sparse representation in the wavelet domain. The algorithm then uses this sparse matrix to construct the the equivalent source directly in the wavelet domain. Performing an inverse wavelet transform then yields the equivalent source in the space domain. Using upward continuation of total-field magnetic data between uneven surfaces as examples, we have compared this approach with the direct solution using the dense matrix in the space domain. We have shown that the wavelet approach can reduce the CPU time by as many as two orders of magnitude.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Duan Li ◽  
Jinsong Du ◽  
Chao Chen ◽  
Qing Liang ◽  
Shida Sun

Abstract. Marine magnetic surveys over oceanic ridge regions are of great interest for investigations of structure and evolution of oceanic crust, and have played a key role in developing the theory of plate tectonics (Dyment, 1993; Maus et al, 2007; Vine and Matthews, 1963). In this study, we propose an interpolation approach based on the dual-layer equivalent source model for the generation of a magnetic anomaly map based on sparse survey line data over oceanic ridge areas. In this approach, information from an ocean crust age model is utilized as constraint for the inversion procedure. The constraints can affect the magnetization distribution of equivalent sources following crust age. The results of synthetic tests show that the obtained magnetic anomalies have higher accuracy than those obtained by other interpolation methods. Meanwhile, considering the unclear on the true magnetization directions of sources and the background field in the synthetic model, well interpolation result can still be obtained. We applied the approach to magnetic data obtained from five survey lines east of the Southeast Indian Ridge. This prediction result is useful to improve the lithospheric magnetic field models WDMAMv2 and EMAG2v3, in the terms of spatial resolution and the consistency with observed data.


Geophysics ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 74 (5) ◽  
pp. L67-L73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fernando Guspí ◽  
Iván Novara

We have developed an equivalent-source method for performing reduction to the pole and related transforms from magnetic data measured on unevenly spaced stations at different elevations. The equivalent source is composed of points located vertically beneath the measurement stations, and their magnetic properties are chosen in such a way that the reduced-to-the-pole magnetic field generated by them is represented by an inverse-distance Newtonian potential. This function, which attenuates slowly with distance, provides better coverage for discrete data points. The magnetization intensity is determined iteratively until the observed field is fitted within a certain tolerance related to the level of noise; thus, advantages in computer time are gained over the resolution of large systems of equations. In the case of induced magnetization, the iteration converges well for verticalor horizontal inclinations, and results are stable if noise is taken into account properly. However, for a range of intermediate inclinations near 35°, a factor tending to zero makes it necessary to perform the reduction through a two-stage procedure, using an auxiliary magnetization direction, without significantly affecting the speed and stability of the method. The performance of the procedure was tested on a synthetic example based on a field generated on randomly scattered stations by a random set of magnetic dipoles, contaminated with noise, which is reduced to the pole for three different magnetization directions. Results provide a good approximation to the theoretical reduced-to-the-pole field using a one- or a two-stage reduction, showing minor noise artifacts when the direction is nearly horizontal. In a geophysical example with real data, the reduction to the pole was used to correct the estimated magnetization direction that originates an isolated anomaly over Sierra de San Luis, Argentina.


2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 435-442
Author(s):  
Hanlei Dong ◽  
Liguo Zhao ◽  
Yunxing Shu ◽  
Neal N. Xiong

AbstractThis paper mainly proposed and researched based on wavelet transform, and then used the X-map denoising technique of value filter. In other words, the value image was filtered in the spatial domain, and the value filtering was used as the standard pulse (salt) noise, also used as in the wavelet domain. After the filtered image was decomposed by biorthogonal double wavelet transform, a wavelet coefficient matrix was generated, and a soft threshold quantisation process was performed on the wavelet coefficients to produce a new wavelet coefficient matrix. In the end, they used a new wavelet coefficient matrix for image reconstruction. The processing resulted that the denoising method proposed in this paper showed that the X image can be denoised, which not only reduced the X-picture-like noise but also preserved the X-picture-like details as much as possible. It also helped to enhance diagnostic accuracy and reduced the difference in reading.


Geophysics ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 79 (6) ◽  
pp. J81-J90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yaoguo Li ◽  
Misac Nabighian ◽  
Douglas W. Oldenburg

We present a reformulation of reduction to the pole (RTP) of magnetic data at low latitudes and the equator using equivalent sources. The proposed method addresses both the theoretical difficulty of low-latitude instability and the practical issue of computational cost. We prove that a positive equivalent source exists when the magnetic data are produced by normal induced magnetization, and we show that the positivity is sufficient to overcome the low-latitude instability in the space domain. We further apply a regularization term directly to the recovered RTP field to improve the solution. The use of equivalent source also naturally enables the processing of data acquired on uneven surface. The result is a practical algorithm that is effective at the equatorial region and can process large-scale data sets with uneven observation heights.


Geophysics ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 74 (5) ◽  
pp. F107-F117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shaaban A. Bakr ◽  
Trond Mannseth

We have assessed the accuracy of a simplified integral equation (SIE) modeling approach for marine controlled-source electromagnetics (CSEM) with low applied frequencies and a resistive target. The most computationally intensive part of rigorous integral equation (IE) modeling is the computation of the anomalous electric field within the target itself. This leads to a matrix problem with a dense coefficient matrix. It is well known that, in general, the presence of many grid cells creates a computational disadvantage for dense-matrix methods compared to sparse-matrix methods. The SIE approach replaces the dense-matrix part of rigorous IE modeling by sparse-matrix calculations based on an approximation of Maxwell’s equations. The approximation is justified theoretically if a certain dimensionless parameter [Formula: see text] is small. As opposed to approximations of the Born type, the validity of the SIE approach does not rely on the anomalous field to be small in comparison with the background field in the target region. We have calculated [Formula: see text] for a range of parameter values typical for marine CSEM, and compared the SIE approach numerically to the rigorous IE method and to the quasi-linear (QL) and quasi-analytic (QA) approximate solutions. It is found that the SIE approach is very accurate for small [Formula: see text], corresponding to frequencies in the lower range of those typical for marine CSEM for petroleum exploration. In addition, the SIE approach is found to be significantly more accurate than the QL and QA approximations for small [Formula: see text].


Author(s):  
Jian Zhou ◽  
Peisen Huang ◽  
Fu-Pen Chiang

A two-step method–-wavelet transform followed by Radon transform–- is proposed for pavement distress classification. First, a pavement image is decomposed into different frequency subbands by wavelet transform. Distress is transformed into the high-amplitude wavelet coefficients, which are referred to as the details, in the high-frequency subbands. The wavelet modulus is calculated by combining the horizontal, vertical, and diagonal details. Since distress, especially crack, has dominant orientations in both the space domain and the wavelet domain, Radon transform is then applied to the wavelet modulus to transform cracks into peaks in the Radon domain. The patterns and parameters of the peaks are finally used for distress classification. Both simulated and experimental results demonstrate that the proposed two-step method is an effective method for pavement distress classification.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Santiago Rubén Soler ◽  
Leonardo Uieda

<p>The equivalent source technique is a well known method for interpolating gravity and magnetic data. It consists in defining a set of finite sources that generate the same observed field and using them to predict the values of the field at unobserved locations. The equivalent source technique has some advantages over general-purpose interpolators: the variation of the field due to the height of the observation points is taken into account and the predicted values belong to an harmonic field. These make equivalent sources a more suited interpolator for any data deriving from a harmonic field (like gravity disturbances and magnetic anomalies). Nevertheless, it has one drawback: the computational cost. The process of estimating the coefficients of the sources that best fit the observed values is very computationally demanding: a Jacobian matrix with number of observation points times number of sources elements must be built and then used to fit the source coefficients though a least-squares method. Increasing the number of data points can make the Jacobian matrix to grow so large that it cannot fit in computer memory.</p><p>We present a gradient-boosting equivalent source method for interpolating large datasets. In it, we define small subsets of equivalent sources that are fitted against neighbouring data points. The process is iteratively carried out, fitting one subset of sources on each iteration to the residual field from previous iterations. This new method is inspired by the gradient-boosting technique, mainly used in machine learning solutions.</p><p>We show that the gradient-boosted equivalent sources are capable of producing accurate predictions by testing against synthetic surveys. Moreover, we were able to grid a gravity dataset from Australia with more than 1.7 million points on a modest personal computer in less than half an hour.</p>


2011 ◽  
Vol 65 ◽  
pp. 497-502
Author(s):  
Yan Wei Wang ◽  
Hui Li Yu

A feature matching algorithm based on wavelet transform and SIFT is proposed in this paper, Firstly, Biorthogonal wavelet transforms algorithm is used for medical image to delaminating, and restoration the processed image. Then the SIFT (Scale Invariant Feature Transform) applied in this paper to abstracting key point. Experimental results show that our algorithm compares favorably in high-compressive ratio, the rapid matching speed and low storage of the image, especially for the tilt and rotation conditions.


Geophysics ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 84 (2) ◽  
pp. B121-B133 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shida Sun ◽  
Chao Chen ◽  
Yiming Liu

We have developed a case study on the use of constrained inversion of magnetic data for recovering ore bodies quantitatively in the Macheng iron deposit, China. The inversion is constrained by the structural orientation and the borehole lithology in the presence of high magnetic susceptibility and strong remanent magnetization. Either the self-demagnetization effect caused by high susceptibility or strong remanent magnetization would lead to an unknown total magnetization direction. Here, we chose inversion of amplitude data that indicate low sensitivity to the direction of magnetization of the sources when constructing the underground model of effective susceptibility. To reduce the errors that arise when treating the total-field anomaly as the projection of an anomalous field vector in the direction of the geomagnetic reference field, we develop an equivalent source technique to calculate the amplitude data from the total-field anomaly. This equivalent source technique is based on the acquisition of the total-field anomaly, which uses the total-field intensity minus the magnitude of the reference field. We first design a synthetic model from a simplified real case to test the new approach, involving the amplitude data calculation and the constrained amplitude inversion. Then, we apply this approach to the real data. The results indicate that the structural orientation and borehole susceptibility bounds are compatible with each other and are able to improve the quality of the recovered model to obtain the distribution of ore bodies quantitatively and effectively.


1999 ◽  
Vol 86 (3) ◽  
pp. 1081-1091 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vincent Pichot ◽  
Jean-Michel Gaspoz ◽  
Serge Molliex ◽  
Anestis Antoniadis ◽  
Thierry Busso ◽  
...  

Heart rate variability is a recognized parameter for assessing autonomous nervous system activity. Fourier transform, the most commonly used method to analyze variability, does not offer an easy assessment of its dynamics because of limitations inherent in its stationary hypothesis. Conversely, wavelet transform allows analysis of nonstationary signals. We compared the respective yields of Fourier and wavelet transforms in analyzing heart rate variability during dynamic changes in autonomous nervous system balance induced by atropine and propranolol. Fourier and wavelet transforms were applied to sequences of heart rate intervals in six subjects receiving increasing doses of atropine and propranolol. At the lowest doses of atropine administered, heart rate variability increased, followed by a progressive decrease with higher doses. With the first dose of propranolol, there was a significant increase in heart rate variability, which progressively disappeared after the last dose. Wavelet transform gave significantly better quantitative analysis of heart rate variability than did Fourier transform during autonomous nervous system adaptations induced by both agents and provided novel temporally localized information.


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