Obtaining free USArray data by multi-dimensional seismic reconstruction

Yangkang Chen (), Min Bai and Yunfeng Chen
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Yangkang Chen: Zhejiang University
Min Bai: Yangtze University
Yunfeng Chen: Future Science Platform, CSIRO

Nature Communications, 2019, vol. 10, issue 1, 1-13

Abstract: Abstract USArray, a pioneering project for the dense acquisition of earthquake data, provides a semi-uniform sampling of the seismic wavefield beneath its footprint and greatly advances the understanding of the structure and dynamics of Earth. Despite continuing efforts in improving the acquisition design, network irregularity still causes spatial sampling alias and incomplete, noisy data, which imposes major challenges in array-based data analysis and seismic imaging. Here we employ an iterative rank-reduction method to simultaneously reconstruct the missing traces and suppress noise, i.e., obtaining free USArray recordings as well as enhancing the existing data. This method exploits the spatial coherency of three-dimensional data and recovers the missing elements via the principal components of the incomplete data. We examine its merits using simulated and real teleseismic earthquake recordings. The reconstructed P wavefield enhances the spatial coherency and accuracy of tomographic travel time measurements, which demonstrates great potential to benefit seismic investigations based on array techniques.

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-12405-0

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