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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2022

Computer Vision Algorithms of DigitSeis for Building a Vectorised Dataset of Historical Seismograms from the Archive of Royal Observatory of Belgium.

Polina Lemenkova, Raphaël De Plaen, Thomas Lecocq, Olivier Debeir

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Polina LemenkovaLaboratory of Image Synthesis and Analysis (LISA), École Polytechnique de Bruxelles (Brussels Faculty of Engineering), Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Building L, Campus de Solbosch, Avenue Franklin Roosevelt 50, BE-1050 Brussels, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0002-5759-1089
Raphaël De PlaenRoyal Observatory of Belgium, Seismology & Gravimetry (OD2), Avenue Circulaire 3, BE-1180 Uccle, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0003-3477-2001
Thomas LecocqRoyal Observatory of Belgium, Seismology & Gravimetry (OD2), Avenue Circulaire 3, BE-1180 Uccle, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0002-4988-6477
Olivier DebeirLaboratory of Image Synthesis and Analysis (LISA), École Polytechnique de Bruxelles (Brussels Faculty of Engineering), Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Building L, Campus de Solbosch, Avenue Franklin Roosevelt 50, BE-1050 Brussels, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0002-6461-1551

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Abstract

Archived seismograms recorded in the 20th century present a valuable source of information for monitoring earthquake activity. However, old data, which are only available as scanned paper-based images should be digitised and converted from raster to vector format prior to reuse for geophysical modelling. Seismograms have special characteristics and specific featuresrecorded by a seismometer and encrypted in the images: signal trace lines, minute time gaps, timing and wave amplitudes. This information should be recognised and interpreted automatically when processing archives of seismograms containing large collections of data. The objective was to automatically digitise historical seismograms obtained from the archives of the Royal Observatory of Belgium (ROB). The images were originallyrecorded by the Galitzine seismometer in 1954 in Uccle seismic station, Belgium. A dataset included 145 TIFF images which required automatic approach of data processing. Software for digitising seismograms are limited and many have disadvantages. We applied the DigitSeis for machine-based vectorisation and reported here a full workflowof data processing. This included pattern recognition, classification, digitising, corrections and converting TIFFs to the digital vector format. The generated contours of signals were presented as time series and converted into digital format (mat files) which indicated information on ground motion signals contained in analog seismograms. We performed the quality control of the digitised traces in Python to evaluate the discriminating functionality of seismic signals by DigitSeis. We shown a robust approach of DigitSeis as a powerful toolset for processing analog seismic signals. The graphical visualisation of signal traces and analysis of the performed vectorisation results shown that the algorithms of data processing performed accurately and can be recommended in similar applications of seismic signal processing in future related works in geophysical research.

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AlgorithmsEarthquakesBelgiumComputersSoftwareanalogue seismogramdigitisingearthquake recordingGalitzine seismometerground motionshistorical seismogramshorizontal componentseismic wavesseismology

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PMID36616653
PMCPMC9824776

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