Unsupervised feature selection and general pattern discovery using Self-Organizing Maps for gaining insights into the nature of seismic wavefields

Authors:
Andreas Köhler;Matthias Ohrnberger;Frank Scherbaum
Affiliations:
Institut für Geowissenschaften, Universität Potsdam, Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 24, Haus 27, 14476 Golm, Germany;Institut für Geowissenschaften, Universität Potsdam, Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 24, Haus 27, 14476 Golm, Germany;Institut für Geowissenschaften, Universität Potsdam, Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 24, Haus 27, 14476 Golm, Germany
Venue:
Computers & Geosciences
Year:
2009

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Abstract

This study presents an unsupervised feature selection and learning approach for the discovery and intuitive imaging of significant temporal patterns in seismic single-station or network recordings. For this purpose, the data are parametrized by real-valued feature vectors for short time windows using standard analysis tools for seismic data, such as frequency-wavenumber, polarization, and spectral analysis. We use Self-Organizing Maps (SOMs) for a data-driven feature selection, visualization and clustering procedure, which is in particular suitable for high-dimensional data sets. Our feature selection method is based on significance testing using the Wald-Wolfowitz runs test for individual features and on correlation hunting with SOMs in feature subsets. Using synthetics composed of Rayleigh and Love waves and real-world data, we show the robustness and the improved discriminative power of that approach compared to feature subsets manually selected from individual wavefield parametrization methods. Furthermore, the capability of the clustering and visualization techniques to investigate the discrimination of wave phases is shown by means of synthetic waveforms and regional earthquake recordings.