Geopsy damping

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Leandro
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Geopsy damping

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Hi Marc,

I have a dataset that we are quite unsure if the peak that we are seeing in the vertical component is of industrial origin. I have been testing this hypothesis using damping toolbox but I am not quite sure of which filter method to use - Butterworth vs Cosine taper.

I have tried using a cosine taper and it verifies that our industrial origin hypothesis, however, using a Butterworth filter gives an opposite result.
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I used a very narrowband frequency as suggested in the documentation here with 10 s window and fitting length.

Please let me know what you think on the ideal filter parameters. Thank you, as always
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Re: Geopsy damping

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Hi Leandro,

It looks like that the width of the cosine filter is too small. The damping effect always disappears if the width tends to 0 because the signal reduces to a sine or a cosine function. Try to enlarge a bit the bandwidth and check if the damping is increased.
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