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Reducing the pressure on data acquisition and processing: II – Data-driven compression using conic coding

LUC T. IKELLE IOAN STURZU
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CASP Project, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843-3115, U.S.A.,
JSE 2009, 18(2), 119–133;
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

Ikelle, L.T. and Sturzu, I., 2009. Reducing the pressure on data acquisition and processing: II - Data-driven compression using conic coding. Journal of Seismic Exploration, 18: 119-133. We here propose a compression method that we characterize as data-driven compression because it is based on transforms which are data-dependent instead of generic mathematical transforms like wavelet transforms. Furthermore, our data-driven compression can be used in cascaded form with existing arithmetic data-compression methods (that is, a data-driven compression followed by an arithmetic data-compression method) because our data-compression method is based on accuracy, whereas arithmetic data-compression methods are based on precision. Such a cascade application of compression techniques can increase the compression ratio to 100:1 or more.

Keywords
data compression
matrix factorization
data acquisition
data processing
multiplicative update rules
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