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(More customer reviews)This is an excellent introduction to modern seismic measurement systems. Basically all what you need to know is covered here. Starting from functioning of seismometer, analog-to-digital techniques and digital filtering. All from the point of view of seismological interests, i.e. everything is all the time nicely linked with seismological practices which other "signal and systems" books obviously lack. Also the CD included is very educative when learning what poles and zeros actually mean.
Pictures could be a bit better from time to time. It seems that straight window-captures have been used when some further image processing would have been required.
Nevertheless, this is a must for any seismologist dealing with measuring systems.
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Digital signal processing has become an integral part ofobservational seismology. Seismic waveforms and the parameterscommonly extracted from them are strongly influenced by the effects ofnumerous filters, both within the earth and within the recordingsystem. With the advent of numerous software tools for the processingof digital seismograms, seismologists have unprecedented power inextracting information from seismic records. These tools are oftenbased on sophisticated theoretical aspects of digital signalprocessing which, to be used properly, need to be understood. Thisbook is aimed at observational seismologists and students ingeophysics trying to obtain a basic understanding of those aspects ofdigital signal processing that are relevant to the interpretation ofseismograms. It covers the basic theory of linear systems, the designand analysis of simple digital filters, the effect of sampling and A/Dconversion, the calculation of 'true ground motion', and the effectsof seismic recording systems on parameters extracted from digitalseismograms. It contains numerous examples and exercises together withtheir solutions. CD-ROM Included The second edition contains the Digital Seismology Tutor by ElkeSchmidtke (University of Potsdam) and Frank Scherbaum, a Java appletwith all the tools to reproduce and/or modify the examples andproblems from this book. Furthermore, a treatment of sigma-deltamodulation with new problems and exercises has been added.
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