Three-Component Microseismic Data Denoising Based on Re-Constrain Variational Mode Decomposition

Microseismic monitoring is an important technology used to evaluate hydraulic fracturing, and denoising is a crucial processing step. Analyses of the characteristics of acquired three-component microseismic data have indicated that the vertical component has a higher signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) than...

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Main Authors: Zhili Chen, Peng Wang, Zhixian Gui, Qinghui Mao
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: MDPI AG 2021
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/4afb998a4faa4406b8d5e50ec3ecf521
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Summary:Microseismic monitoring is an important technology used to evaluate hydraulic fracturing, and denoising is a crucial processing step. Analyses of the characteristics of acquired three-component microseismic data have indicated that the vertical component has a higher signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) than the two horizontal components. Therefore, we propose a new denoising method for three-component microseismic data using re-constrain variational mode decomposition (VMD). In this method, it is assumed that there is a linear relationship between the modes with the same center frequency among the VMD results of the three-component data. Then, the decomposition result of the vertical component is used as a constraint to the whole denoising effect of the three-component data. On the basis of VMD, we add a constraint condition to form the re-constrain VMD, and deduce the corresponding solution process. According to the synthesis data analysis, the proposed method can not only improve the SNR level of three-component records, it also improves the accuracy of polarization analysis. The proposed method also achieved a satisfactory effect for field data.