scholarly journals NOISE REDUCTION AND INTERPRETATION OF ICE-PENETRATING RADAR DATA IN ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET BASED ON VARIATIONAL MODE DECOMPOSITION

Author(s):  
X. Tang ◽  
S. Cheng ◽  
J. Guo

<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> Ice-penetrating radar is an effective method for studying the subglacial bedrock and ice information within the Antarctic ice sheet. Because of the low conductivity of ice and the relatively uniform composition of ice sheets in the polar region, ice-penetrating radar can penetrate deeper part of the ice sheet and collect the following data. However, it is still necessary to suppress the noise from radar data to obtain more accurate and effective data. In this paper, the entirely non-recursive Variational Mode Decomposition (VMD) is applied to the data noise reduction of ice-penetrating radar data. VMD is a decomposition method of adaptive and quasi-orthogonal signals, which decomposes airborne radar data into multiple frequency-limited quasi-orthogonal Intrinsic Mode Functions (IMFs). The IMFs containing noise are then removed according to the information distribution in the IMFs component and the remaining IMFs are reconstructed. We implements the method to process the real ice-penetrating radar data, which effectively eliminates the interference noise in the data, improves the signal-to-noise ratio and characterizes the internal layer structure of ice. It is verified that the method can be applied to the noise reduction processing of polar ice-penetrating radar data successful, which provides a better basis for data interpretation. Finally, we present the internal structure within the ice sheet based on VMD denoised radar profile.</p>

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 1253 ◽  
Author(s):  
Siyuan Cheng ◽  
Sixin Liu ◽  
Jingxue Guo ◽  
Kun Luo ◽  
Ling Zhang ◽  
...  

In the Arctic and Antarctic scientific expeditions, ice-penetrating radar is an effective method for studying the bedrock under the ice sheet and ice information within the ice sheet. Because of the low conductivity of ice and the relatively uniform composition of ice sheets in the polar regions, ice-penetrating radar is able to obtain deeper and more abundant data than other geophysical methods. However, it is still necessary to suppress the noise in radar data to obtain more accurate and plentiful effective information. In this paper, the entirely non-recursive Variational Mode Decomposition (VMD) is applied to the data noise reduction of ice-penetrating radar. VMD is a decomposition method of adaptive and quasi-orthogonal signals, which decomposes airborne radar data into multiple frequency-limited quasi-orthogonal Intrinsic Mode Functions (IMFs). The IMFs containing noise are then removed according to the information distribution in the IMF’s components and the remaining IMFs are reconstructed. This paper employs this method to process the real ice-penetrating radar data, which effectively eliminates the interference noise in the data, improves the signal-to-noise ratio and obtains the clearer inner layer structure of ice. It is verified that the method can be applied to the noise reduction processing of polar ice-penetrating radar data very well, which provides a better basis for data interpretation. At last, we present fine ice structure within the ice sheet based on VMD denoised radar profile.


Sensors ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (10) ◽  
pp. 3510 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhijian Wang ◽  
Junyuan Wang ◽  
Wenhua Du

Variational Mode Decomposition (VMD) can decompose signals into multiple intrinsic mode functions (IMFs). In recent years, VMD has been widely used in fault diagnosis. However, it requires a preset number of decomposition layers K and is sensitive to background noise. Therefore, in order to determine K adaptively, Permutation Entroy Optimization (PEO) is proposed in this paper. This algorithm can adaptively determine the optimal number of decomposition layers K according to the characteristics of the signal to be decomposed. At the same time, in order to solve the sensitivity of VMD to noise, this paper proposes a Modified VMD (MVMD) based on the idea of Noise Aided Data Analysis (NADA). The algorithm first adds the positive and negative white noise to the original signal, and then uses the VMD to decompose it. After repeated cycles, the noise in the original signal will be offset to each other. Then each layer of IMF is integrated with each layer, and the signal is reconstructed according to the results of the integrated mean. MVMD is used for the final decomposition of the reconstructed signal. The algorithm is used to deal with the simulation signals and measured signals of gearbox with multiple fault characteristics. Compared with the decomposition results of EEMD and VMD, it shows that the algorithm can not only improve the signal to noise ratio (SNR) of the signal effectively, but can also extract the multiple fault features of the gear box in the strong noise environment. The effectiveness of this method is verified.


2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 888-898 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Liu ◽  
Siyuan Cao ◽  
Zhiming Wang

Abstract We have proposed a new denoising method for the simultaneous noise reduction and preservation of seismic signals based on variational mode decomposition (VMD). VMD is a recently developed adaptive signal decomposition method and an advance in non-stationary signal analysis. It solves the mode-mixing and non-optimal reconstruction performance problems of empirical mode decomposition that have existed for a long time. By using VMD, a multi-component signal can be non-recursively decomposed into a series of quasi-orthogonal intrinsic mode functions (IMFs), each of which has a relatively local frequency range. Meanwhile, the signal will focus on a smaller number of obtained IMFs after decomposition, and thus the denoised result is able to be obtained by reconstructing these signal-dominant IMFs. Synthetic examples are given to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach and comparison is made with the complete ensemble empirical mode decomposition, which demonstrates that the VMD algorithm has lower computational cost and better random noise elimination performance. The application of on field seismic data further illustrates the superior performance of our method in both random noise attenuation and the recovery of seismic events.


2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
pp. 2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juncai Xu ◽  
Bangjun Lei

Data interpretation is the crucial scientific component that influences the inspection accuracy of ground penetrating radar (GPR). Developing algorithms for interpreting GPR data is a research focus of increasing interest. The problem of algorithms for interpreting GPR data is unresolved. To this end, this study proposes a sophisticated algorithm for interpreting GPR data with the aim of improving the inspection resolution. The algorithm is formulated by integrating variational mode decomposition (VMD) and Hilbert–Huang transform techniques. With this method, the intrinsic mode function of the GPR data is first produced using the VMD of the data, followed by obtaining the instantaneous frequency by using the Hilbert–Huang transform to analyze the intrinsic mode functions. The instantaneous frequency data can be decomposed into three frequency attributes, including frequency division section, time-frequency section, and space frequency section, which constitute a platform to gain insight into the nature of the GPR data, such that the inspected media components can be examined. The effectiveness of the proposed method on a synthetic signal from a GPR forward model was studied, with the multi-resolution performance being tested. Inspecting the media of a highroad by analyzing the GPR data, with the abnormal characteristics being designated, validated the applicability of the proposed method.


Entropy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (12) ◽  
pp. 1567
Author(s):  
Ragavesh Dhandapani ◽  
Imene Mitiche ◽  
Scott McMeekin ◽  
Venkateswara Sarma Mallela ◽  
Gordon Morison

This paper presents a new approach for denoising Partial Discharge (PD) signals using a hybrid algorithm combining the adaptive decomposition technique with Entropy measures and Group-Sparse Total Variation (GSTV). Initially, the Empirical Mode Decomposition (EMD) technique is applied to decompose a noisy sensor data into the Intrinsic Mode Functions (IMFs), Mutual Information (MI) analysis between IMFs is carried out to set the mode length K. Then, the Variational Mode Decomposition (VMD) technique decomposes a noisy sensor data into K number of Band Limited IMFs (BLIMFs). The BLIMFs are separated as noise, noise-dominant, and signal-dominant BLIMFs by calculating the MI between BLIMFs. Eventually, the noise BLIMFs are discarded from further processing, noise-dominant BLIMFs are denoised using GSTV, and the signal BLIMFs are added to reconstruct the output signal. The regularization parameter λ for GSTV is automatically selected based on the values of Dispersion Entropy of the noise-dominant BLIMFs. The effectiveness of the proposed denoising method is evaluated in terms of performance metrics such as Signal-to-Noise Ratio, Root Mean Square Error, and Correlation Coefficient, which are are compared to EMD variants, and the results demonstrated that the proposed approach is able to effectively denoise the synthetic Blocks, Bumps, Doppler, Heavy Sine, PD pulses and real PD signals.


Electronics ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (11) ◽  
pp. 280 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yaping Huang ◽  
Hanyong Bao ◽  
Xuemei Qi

Seismic data is easily affected by random noise during field data acquisition. Therefore, random noise attenuation plays an important role in seismic data processing and interpretation. According to decomposition characteristics of seismic signals by using variational mode decomposition (VMD) and the constraint conditions of correlation coefficients, this paper puts forward a method for random noise attenuation in seismic data, which is called variational mode decomposition correlation coefficients VMDC. Firstly, the original signals were decomposed into intrinsic mode functions (IMFs) with different characteristics by VMD. Then, the correlation coefficients between each IMF and the original signal were calculated. Next, based on the differences among correlation coefficients of effective signals and random noise as well as the original signals, the corresponding treatment was carried out, and the effective signals were reconstructed. Finally, the random noise attenuation was realized. After adding random noise to simple sine signals and the synthetic seismic record, the improved complementary ensemble empirical mode decomposition (ICEEMD) and VMDC were used for testing. The testing results indicate that the proposed VMDC has better random noise attenuation effects. It was also used in real-world seismic data noise attenuation. The results also show that it could effectively improve the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of seismic data and could provide high-quality basic data for further interpretation of seismic data.


Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (24) ◽  
pp. 8295
Author(s):  
Huaqing Xu ◽  
Tieding Lu ◽  
Jean-Philippe Montillet ◽  
Xiaoxing He

To improve the reliability of Global Positioning System (GPS) signal extraction, the traditional variational mode decomposition (VMD) method cannot determine the number of intrinsic modal functions or the value of the penalty factor in the process of noise reduction, which leads to inadequate or over-decomposition in time series analysis and will cause problems. Therefore, in this paper, a new approach using improved variational mode decomposition and wavelet packet transform (IVMD-WPT) was proposed, which takes the energy entropy mutual information as the objective function and uses the grasshopper optimisation algorithm to optimise the objective function to adaptively determine the number of modal decompositions and the value of the penalty factor to verify the validity of the IVMD-WPT algorithm. We performed a test experiment with two groups of simulation time series and three indicators: root mean square error (RMSE), correlation coefficient (CC) and signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). These indicators were used to evaluate the noise reduction effect. The simulation results showed that IVMD-WPT was better than the traditional empirical mode decomposition and improved variational mode decomposition (IVMD) methods and that the RMSE decreased by 0.084 and 0.0715 mm; CC and SNR increased by 0.0005 and 0.0004 dB, and 862.28 and 6.17 dB, respectively. The simulation experiments verify the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm. Finally, we performed an analysis with 100 real GPS height time series from the Crustal Movement Observation Network of China (CMONOC). The results showed that the RMSE decreased by 11.4648 and 6.7322 mm, and CC and SNR increased by 0.1458 and 0.0588 dB, and 32.6773 and 26.3918 dB, respectively. In summary, the IVMD-WPT algorithm can adaptively determine the number of decomposition modal functions of VMD and the optimal combination of penalty factors; it helps to further extract effective information for noise and can perfectly retain useful information in the original time series.


2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zoltán Germán-Salló

Abstract This study explores the data-driven properties of the empirical mode decomposition (EMD) for signal denoising. EMD is an acknowledged procedure which has been widely used for non-stationary and nonlinear signal processing. The main idea of the EMD method is to decompose the analyzed signal into components without using expansion functions. This is a signal dependent representation and provides intrinsic mode functions (IMFs) as components. These are analyzed, through their Hurst exponent and if they are found being noisy components they will be partially or integrally eliminated. This study presents an EMD decomposition-based filtering procedure applied to test signals, the results are evaluated through signal to noise ratio (SNR) and mean square error (MSE). The obtained results are compared with discrete wavelet transform based filtering results.


Energies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 359 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuxing Li ◽  
Xiao Chen ◽  
Jing Yu ◽  
Xiaohui Yang ◽  
Huijun Yang

The data-driven method is an important tool in the field of underwater acoustic signal processing. In order to realize the feature extraction of ship-radiated noise (S-RN), we proposed a data-driven optimization method called improved variational mode decomposition (IVMD). IVMD, as an improved method of variational mode decomposition (VMD), solved the problem of choosing decomposition layers for VMD by using a frequency-aided method. Furthermore, a novel method of feature extraction for S-RN, which combines IVMD and sample entropy (SE), is put forward in this paper. In this study, four types of S-RN signals are decomposed into a group of intrinsic mode functions (IMFs) by IVMD. Then, SEs of all IMFs are calculated. SEs are different in the maximum energy IMFs (EIMFs), thus, SE of the EIMF is seen as a novel feature for S-RN. To verify the effectiveness of the proposed method, a comparison has been conducted by comparing features of center frequency and SE of the EIMF by IVMD, empirical mode decomposition (EMD) and ensemble EMD (EEMD). The analysis results show that the feature of S-RN can be obtain efficiently and accurately by using the proposed method.


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