Effective frequency estimation method for sinusoidal interference in seismic data
The removal of sinusoidal interference is an important step in seismic data processing, especially for data with low signal-to-noise ratios. The intermittent character of sinusoidal interference makes it challenging to identify and attenuate. To address this issue, we propose a method to accurately identify sinusoidal interference and rapidly estimate its frequencies. A spectrum-generation strategy is presented to generate an amplitude spectrum with noticeable sinusoidal interference. An initial estimate of the affected frequencies is found using a frequency-search technique based on the amplitude spectrum. The estimate is then refined by an iterative frequency estimation algorithm, which includes fast frequency estimation and normalized cross-correlation calculation. After modeling the noise using the precise frequency estimation, the sinusoidal interference in seismic data can then be suppressed by adaptively subtracting the estimated noise from the raw seismic data. The effectiveness of the proposed method in identifying sinusoidal interference is verified by testing it on synthetic and field data and by comparing the results with those from existing methods. Synthetic and real data examples indicate that the method is most applicable to land seismic data.