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Thanks for your time and help!

I am working with Apollo project passive seismic experiment (PSE) data, and I have a large set of seismic records (on digital counts) and the corresponding file of poles and zeros.

I need to deconvolve these registers to obtain calibrated seismograms on SI units.

I have read that this can be accomplished with a water-level deconvolution of 10% but I am not sure of how can make this.

I ask for some orientation and if possible bibliographical references

I am working in MatLab

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  • $\begingroup$ Hi Oscar and welcome to DSP.SE! I may help give further details if you link what you have read, assuming it is available online. From what you wrote it sounds like there is a correlation of seismic data to water levels and you are trying to normalize that out perhaps-- not clear to me but perhaps others with experience with seismic data analysis will recognize what you are trying to do and why. $\endgroup$ – Dan Boschen Jun 20 '20 at 12:47
  • $\begingroup$ Hello @DanBoschen, Thanks for your interest. The Water-Level refers to a type of regularized convolution to solve stability problems introduced for noise on the signal after deconvolution. The document I have is The 1979 Ph.D. Thesis of Peter Horvath link, the chapter 2 is dedicated to the deconvolution with Water-Level Method $\endgroup$ – OscarArcila Jun 20 '20 at 20:03
  • $\begingroup$ Interesting- is it referring to actual water level data or is that an analogy? $\endgroup$ – Dan Boschen Jun 20 '20 at 20:12
  • $\begingroup$ @DanBoschen There is no water involved. Please takes a look at link. There the authors expose Water-Level deconvolution but with an algorithm different from Horvath. My main difficulty is finding the correct frequency bins! Thanks for your help. $\endgroup$ – OscarArcila Jun 20 '20 at 20:19
  • $\begingroup$ I had no idea this was called water level deconvolution, but it appears to be what Wertheim (at the old Bell Labs) was doing in 1975: G.K. Wertheim, Deconvolution and Smoothing: Applications in ESCA, J. Electron Spectroscopy and Related Phenomena, 6 (1975) 239-251. I do not have an online link to this paper, just an old scanned copy. Wertheim seems to be using a 10% "water level". Best of success with your project/research! $\endgroup$ – Ed V Jun 20 '20 at 21:41

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