RS 502 Geographic Information Systems and Geophysical Signal Processing
Mapping concepts, data structure, data management techniques, data acquisition, global positioning system interface, data manipulation and analysis; fourier series and periodic waveforms, fourier transform and its properties. Auto- and cross-correlations, power spectrum. Delta function and unit step function. Tome domain windows. Z-transform and properties, inverse Z-transform. Principles of digital filters, moving average, and recursive filters. Introduction to cepstrum and its application in seismic data processing. Pole-zero technique for designing ARIMA filters. Shaping and spiking filters using winner's principle of least square estimation. Deconvolution of seismic traces: feed forward and feed backward methods, spectral factorization. Applications of two-dimensional symmetric filters for processing gravity and magnetic fields.
Prerequisite
RS 501 or written permission of the instructor.