Basic Concepts in Digital Signal Processing for Seismologists

by Frank Scherbaum

Overview

Digital signal processing has become more and more an integral part of observational seismology. While it offers unprecedented power in extracting information from seismic signals, it comes at the price of having to learn a variety of new skills. Dealing with digital seismic data requires at least a basic understanding of digital signal processing. Taking the calculation of true ground motion as the guiding problem, this course covers the basic theory of linear systems, the design and analysis of simple digital filters, the effect of sampling and A/D conversion and an introduction to spectral analysis of digital signals. It contains a number of examples and exercises that can be reproduced using the PITSA software package (Scherbaum and Johnson 1993) or similar programs.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783540579731
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date:	03/05/1996
Series:	Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences , #53
Pages:	164
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.01(d)

Table of Contents

RC filter.- General linear time invariant systems.- The seismometer.- The sampling process.- Analog to digital conversion.- From infinitely continuous to finite discrete.- The digital anti-alias filter.- Deconvolution, a glimpse ahead.