Self-organizing Competitive Neural Network Based Adaptive Sparse Representation for Magnetotelluric Data Denoising

Abstract

The existing sparse decomposition denoising methods for magnetotelluric (MT) data need to set the iterative stop condition manually, which not only has a large workload and high difficulty, but also easily causes subjective bias. To this end, we propose a new adaptive sparse representation method for MT data denoising. First, the data to be processed is divided into high-quality segments and noisy segments by machine learning algorithm. Then, the characteristic parameters of high-quality segments are calculated, and the boundary value of the characteristic parameters is taken as the threshold. The threshold has two functions, one is as a criterion for signal-to-noise identification, and the other is as an iterative stop condition for subsequent sparse decomposition. Finally, the optimized orthogonal matching pursuit algorithm is used to separate the signal and noise of the noisy segments, and the denoised segments and high-quality segments are combined to obtain the complete denoised MT data. The field data processing results show that this method is a fully automatic and intelligent MT data denoising method. It greatly improves the signal-to-noise ratio and the apparent resistivity-phase curves.