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Arrival time picking of micro-seismic data by using SPE algorithm

XINTONG DONG1 HONG JIANG1 YUE LI1 BAOJUN YANG2
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1 Jilin University, Department of Information Engineering, Changchun Jilin 130000, P.R. China.,
2 Jilin University, Department of GeoExploration Science and Technology, Changchun Jilin 130000, P.R. China.,
JSE 2019, 28(5), 475–494;
Submitted: 9 June 2025 | Revised: 9 June 2025 | Accepted: 9 June 2025 | Published: 9 June 2025
© 2025 by the Authors. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution -Noncommercial 4.0 International License (CC-by the license) ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ )
Abstract

Dong, X.T., Jiang, H., Li. Y. and Yang, B.J., 2019. Arrival time picking of microseismic data by using SPE algorithm. Journal of Seismic Exploration, 28: 475-494. The accuracy of the arrival time picking has deep influence on hypocenter location which is the core part of microseismic exploration, so arrival time picking plays a significant role in microseismic date processing. However. at this stage, the arrival picking of microseismic signals with low signal-to-noise ratios (SNR) are problematic because these valid signals are usually obscured by random noise, so it is difficult to obtain the arrival time of microseismic signal accurately by the conventional methods, especially the horizontal components in microsiesmic signals. In order to solve this technical issue, the valid signals in microseismic data is highlighted by the multi-scale and multi-direction features of Shearlet transform, and because of the vibration track’s difference between the valid signals and noise, the polarization analysis is applied to process the Shearlet coefficients. Also, through the introduction of entropy and the proposal of weight factor, three-dimensional (3D) weighted entropy algorithm is constructed, so as to achieve the purpose of processing the three components together. Several synthetic and field data examples with different kinds of noise demonstrate the effectiveness and robustness of the Shearlet transform-polarization analysis-3D weighted entropy (SPE) algorithm in arrival time picking of microseismic data.

Keywords
arrival time picking
microseismic data
random noise
Shearlet transform
polarization analysis
weighted entropy ratio
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