An Efficient and effective stacking method for MT spectrum data; A Validation study using survey data

Negi, Tateyuki; Umeda, Koji; Matsuo, Koichi*; Asamori, Koichi; Yokoi, Koichi*; Ohara, Hidefumi*

The wide band MT method is recognized as an effective method for identifying deep resistivity structures in the crust. In the method, natural variations in the electric and magnetic fields of the earth are acquired over a wide range of frequencies. World wide, thunderstorm activity produces magnetic fields at frequencies above 1Hz. These natural phenomena create strong MT source signals over the entire frequency spectrum. However, magnetic fields at frequencies below 1Hz activate intermittently, because they are caused by the interaction between solar wind and the magnetosphere and therefore, long recording times are required to obtain usable readings. In noisy regions, the signals may be contaminated by DC train signals and other coherent noise, such as occur in western Japan. When magnetic field data are contaminated by such noise, it is difficult to remove or segregate the contaminated data from the usable data. In the paper, we showed the validity of the new weighted stacking method using survey data contaminated by coherent noise.