Articles | Volume 14, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/se-14-181-2023
https://doi.org/10.5194/se-14-181-2023
Method article
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01 Mar 2023
Method article |  | 01 Mar 2023

Ocean bottom seismometer (OBS) noise reduction from horizontal and vertical components using harmonic–percussive separation algorithms

Zahra Zali, Theresa Rein, Frank Krüger, Matthias Ohrnberger, and Frank Scherbaum

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NoiseCut Zahra Zali https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7339552

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Short summary
Investigation of the global Earth's structure benefits from the analysis of ocean bottom seismometer (OBS) data that allow an improved seismic illumination of dark spots of crustal and mantle structures in the oceanic regions of the Earth. However, recordings from the ocean bottom are often highly contaminated by noise. We developed an OBS noise reduction algorithm, which removes much of the oceanic noise while preserving the earthquake signal and does not introduce waveform distortion.