Ratio-to-moving-average seismograms: A strategy for improving correlation detector performance

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 190, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 511-521

  Gibbons, Steven J ^a   Ringdal, Frode ^a   Kværna, Tormod ^a  

^a NORSAR   (Norway)

Author keywords

Seismic monitoring and test ban treaty verification; Seismicity and tectonics; Time series analysis

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE VALUES; AFTERSHOCK SEQUENCE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CORRELATION DETECTION; DETECTION THRESHOLD; HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE; HIGHLY SENSITIVE; INTERFERING SIGNALS; MOVING AVERAGES; MULTIPLE-PEAK; NUMBER OF FALSE ALARMS; ROBUST DETECTION; SEISMIC MONITORING; SEISMIC SIGNALS; SHORT DURATIONS; STANDARD METHOD; TIME INTERVAL; TIME WINDOWS; WAVE FORMS;

CORRELATION DETECTORS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; SEISMOLOGY; TECTONICS; VEHICLE ROUTING;

SIGNAL DETECTION;

AFTERSHOCK; CORRELATION; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC SOURCE; SEISMICITY; SEISMOGRAM; THRESHOLD; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

EID: 84862193189     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2012.05492.x     Document Type: Article

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