Journal of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Research
Vol. 10 No. 1 (2024): June

An unsupervised machine learning algorithm approach using K-Means Clustering for optimizing Surface Wave Filtering in seismic reflection data

Hartono Hartono (Universitas Islam Negeri Walisongo Semarang)
Haerul Anwar (Institut Kesehatan dan Teknologi PKP DKI Jakarta)
Rofiqul Umam (Kwansei Gakuin University)
Hirotaka Takahashi (Tokyo City University)



Article Info

Publish Date
31 Jul 2024

Abstract

Surface waves often cause significant noise in seismic data, complicating the interpretation of subsurface structures. Traditional filtering methods, such as FK filtering, usually struggle with non-stationary noise and require extensive manual parameter tuning. This study explores the effectiveness of using K-means clustering, incorporating attributes such as amplitude, frequency, and phase to filter surface waves from seismic data. Synthetic seismic data were first generated to test the proposed method, ensuring its robustness before application to real field data. Attributes were extracted from each seismic trace, including instantaneous amplitude, frequency, and phase. These attributes were used as input parameters for the K-means clustering algorithm. The identified clusters corresponding to surface waves were then used to filter these waves from the seismic data. The K-Means clustering effectively differentiated surface waves from reflected waves in both synthetic and real seismic datasets. The method demonstrated that by including phase as an attribute, alongside amplitude and frequency, the accuracy of surface wave detection and filtering significantly improved. The synthetic data showed a clear separation of wave types, validating the method. When applied to real field data, the approach consistently removed surface waves, clarity of seismic reflections crucial for subsurface analysis.

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JNSMR

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Agriculture, Biological Sciences & Forestry Biochemistry, Genetics & Molecular Biology Chemistry Materials Science & Nanotechnology Physics

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Journal of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Research, an international journal, provides a forum for publishing the original research articles, review articles from contributors, and the novel technology news related to natural sciences and mathematics research. Scientific articles dealing with ...