Technologies of preliminary data processing for multidisciplinary geophysical monitoring and a case study of their application in the Kamchatka geoacoustic observation system

Abstract

The problems and procedures for obtaining high quality results of multidisciplinary geophysical monitoring at the stage of preliminary data processing are considered. The case study of solving different technical problems during the long-term multidisciplinary borehole geophysical observations at the Petropavlovsk- Kamchatsky geodynamic research area is described. The algorithms for preliminary data processing and flawed data discard combining automated approaches and expert screening developed by the authors are presented. Suppression of quasi-regular disturbances is especially important in the studies of interrelations between geoacoustic, electromagnetic, and meteorological processes and seismicity because of the clear diurnal periodicity in all these processes that significantly complicates the signal extraction from the noise. The key technical, organizational, and methodical measures aimed at improving the data should be provided at the project planning stage of the measurement system. The optimal selection and reasoned application of special procedures for data preprocessing can crucially affect the research results.